Chris Stapleton Quotes
You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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People that don't know me get 'Mossed'. It means, I was gonna go home, but then I just got led astray. In the best possible way, of course. I mean, it's always fun, and a good time.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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I have always been ambitious about getting a U.S. role, and if ever there is some frustration, it is still encouraging to get close to big roles because it implies there is somewhere to go.
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Getting toxic lead out of gasoline, the oil industry shouted, would cost a dollar a gallon. It turned out to cost just a penny a gallon to protect hundreds of thousands of kids from lead-induced brain damage.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.
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But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.
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Punk was sort of an angry stance against things that had happened just before, against the pop of glam rock, against progressive rock. Music had become very staid and it was about the playing and people obsessed. Eric Clapton was God and we needed an enema within the art form, and punk did do that.
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I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.
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I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
