Peter Gay Quotes
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all.
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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After having read a lot of fiction, literature, whatever you want to call it, from Wolfe to Houellebecq, I think you have to have an understanding and insight of the human condition that is informed and motivated by a desire to immerse yourself in the human world and bring these stories to bear.
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For me personally, and as a band, there are a lot of challenges. Being in a band is like war, it's a battle - to focus, to really put together something that's formidable and then keeping everything together.
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I think China is in a chaos now and it could be more chaos. It’s an orderly chaos. It’s a party that ruthlessly violates every human’s basic rights to serve its own purpose.'
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I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.
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When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.
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What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
