Pete Burns Quotes
There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
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She still believes in classical economics, the allocation of resources under conditions of scarcity. Information doesn’t work that way.
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There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
