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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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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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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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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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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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.
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God doesn't want all of us to relinquish all of our material possessions.
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I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.
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I have kind of a personality defect in that I find the word 'no' hard to articulate.
