Peter Buck Quotes
I don't think about this stuff on that level. I approach this whole thing as a guy who plays guitar and feels a particular way.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.
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The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.
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The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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I grew up with Bond.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she's a know-it-all. She thinks she's marketing herself and her work. All she's really doing is turning readers off.
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We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
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So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
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I can just remember being broke, wondering if I had any talent - really wondering whether this was all a fantasy - but I had to get out there and keep trying.
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I could definitely make 145. But if 'Cowboy' is going to 145, I'm going after somebody who matters.
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I don't think about this stuff on that level. I approach this whole thing as a guy who plays guitar and feels a particular way.
