John Peel Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
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There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
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Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Man believes he has will: this is his illusion.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Look at the facts as they truly are, not as you want them to be.
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I just want to hear something I haven't heard before.
