Peter James Quotes
My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
Quotes to Explore
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.
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Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?
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Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.
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English urban artists were very used to making secondhand American music, and I thought that was boring.
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My day starts with Radio 4's Today live or 'listen again' wherever I am in the world, thanks to digital radio - I even have an app on my iPhone that receives it.
