John Peel Quotes
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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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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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I realized that, all along, my theory was right: Make music that you want to hear, and instead of having fans that one day might criticize or abandon you, your fans aren't even fans. They're people with tastes similar to yours. They're friends you haven't met yet.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I hope the Friends of Federal Government may be as successful in New York, as they have been in South Carolina. We had a tedious but trifling opposition to contend with. We had prejudices to contend with and sacrifices to make. Yet they were worth making for the good old cause. — People become more and more satisfied with the adoption, and if well administered, and administered with moderation they will cherish and bless those who have offered them a Constitution which will secure to them all the Advantages that flow from good government.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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I can't believe I've won here again. I want to move here. I love the people, I love the food, and I love the waves.
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I didn't want to do it... I'd been trying to get out of TV for years!
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Bella [Hadid] is also very naturally gifted in beauty so she can also go whenever she wants to go to the gym.
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I just want to hear something I haven't heard before.
