Mal Peet Quotes
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The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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I want to find a nice decent job as a helicopter pilot.
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I have a fearless but neutral personality.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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There's something about a humid, dusky evening that's kind of sexy.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.
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Dana White, bring me someone that can beat me. You can't find no one that can beat me.
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You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially.
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You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
