George Peter John Criscuola (Peter Criss) Quotes
We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.
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I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
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Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services.
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And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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We're much more controlled now. We were kids back then, we each had our own demons. It was insanity.
