Peter Hook Quotes
Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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I love women more than anything.
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I hate the domestic life.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I'm not the hands-on guy. I like writing the check, and I turn it over to the guys that make it happen, much like the way I ran my business.
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My mom told me if I ever got a tattoo, she was going to take it off with a potato peeler.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.
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I'm gonna be a happy idiot and struggle for the legal tender. Where the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender. And believe in whatever may lie in those things that money can buy, though true love could have been a contender
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It seems as though there are Members in this body who want to filibuster just about everything we try to do, whether it is stopping judicial nominations, the Energy bill, or this Medicare bill.
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'The truth is that the public has done one of those startling and amazing things that they do about once in a hundred years. They’ve seized an idea.''What is it?''That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.'
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Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.
