Pete Burns Quotes

I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

Pete Burns

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• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Think
  • Me
  • Gangster

• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Heart
  • Together
  • Relationship

• It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.

  

  Edmund White
  • Real
  • Better
  • Successful

• What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Movie
  • Shot
  • Iceberg

• I love Le'Veon Bell.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Bell

• The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Man
  • Sheep
  • Wolves

• Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Time
  • May
  • Feeling

• All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Want
  • You
  • Chefs

• One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

  

  Louis Kronenberger
  • Time
  • Real

• Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more: They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;They lack, I have; they pine, I live.

  

  Edward Dyer
  • Live

• Clive Barker: It's an excuse to look at my groin.Craig Ferguson: I'm European - I don't need an excuse.

  

  Craig Ferguson

• That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Morning

• The big difference between us and other people who produce content is that we started doing this to make things that we wanted to make.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • People

• I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Godfather

• Gov. Romney is a proven and effective leader with vast experience in the business world, in the non-profit world and in government. And in every capacity in which he has ever served, he has been effective as a leader.

  

  Jim Talent
  • World
  • Business
  • Experience

• If you go slow-motion, it looks like you stuck your knee out, but if you play it at normal speed, my legs are stopped and I planted to put the shoulder into him. As he jumped out of the way, he missed my shoulder, but my leg hit him. I don't want to ever hurt a guy, especially (because) he's a good young player. It's just one of those things.

  

  Luke Richardson
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Player

• All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

  

  William T. Wiley
  • Good
  • School
  • Buried

• Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • God
  • Heartache

• I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

  

  Allan Loeb
  • Character
  • Speech
  • Says

• I'm not really the sort to reflect or look forward. I prefer concentrating on the now.

  

  Pete Burns