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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A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.
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A lot of early Misfits song titles are inspired by old B-movies, which were my Popeye's spinach when I was a kid.
Colson Whitehead -
I find inspiration in literally just about everything.
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I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.
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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.
