Bernard Sumner Quotes
I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Actors don't have real value.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
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I know about the sweet home. I went to school with 'em boys, what became Lynyrd Skynyrd; I knew Allen Collins, the skinny girl-beautiful guitarist. I put Allen Collins in every travel piece I do. Travel writing is harrowing, going to Bermuda with a banjo on my knee.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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No granite is so hard as hatred and no clay so cold as cruelty.
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I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'
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I think it's a problem when journalists have the title of their article before they do the interview, because it biases the way they conduct it.
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I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals. I'm like incense. I'm a background thing for you when you do your thing with your lady. I'm a friend, only assisting you in your lurve machinations. So have no fear of me, people.
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I've realized that I owe people a look behind the scenes of my own story, because I don't think anyone can have a true understanding of the music without an insight into where it came from.
