Pete Burns Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
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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.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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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.
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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.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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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.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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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.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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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.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.
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Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
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The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
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Are you trying to give me a hint that I should drop it? I can lose the accent; I just have to really focus on what I'm saying. And I have to talk slowly.
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For Mum and Dad... work and home is family, so work is family and home is family. We grew up with that.
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I live a quiet daytime life. I walk everywhere. I lie down. I wash socks. I fry an egg.
