Pete Burns Quotes

I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.

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• Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Business

• You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Start
  • Books
  • Really

• As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Live
  • Way
  • Hate

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Wife

• Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Tradition
  • Direction

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • You
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• After running for a while, things really start to open up in your body. I felt like I'd tapped into parts of my body that I hadn't before. I let things in the universe flow through me that opened me up in a really cool way.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Running
  • Universe

• After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • You
  • English
  • Say

• Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Happy
  • See
  • Text

• Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Black
  • Rock
  • Tree

• The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Attention
  • Teachers

• Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Way
  • Say
  • Only

• Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

  

  Mae West
  • Office
  • Reward
  • Box

• I just like doing comedies, and think that my timing and love for the genre set me apart from other young women who look like me.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Women
  • Young
  • Genre

• Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Rock
  • New York

• Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.

  

  Adepero Oduye
  • Life
  • Different
  • Career

• For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.

  

  Pete Burns
  • Life
  • Live