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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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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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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You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
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Coming from the William Morris mailroom as I have, this book is the truth of what I experienced, and it reminded me of all the fun and craziness and fake drama that trained me for this profession. It's hilarious, a bit crazy, and it should make anyone wonder why people put their careers in the hands of these idiotsand remember I'm one of them. If you have a child, make sure he or she reads this before starting at the bottom- anywhere.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I don't want to be submerged by depression.
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I just want to hear something I haven't heard before.
