John Newman (John William Peter Newman) Quotes
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.
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I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
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One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.
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To me, the most romantic gesture is a quiet night with my girl. I like to cook for her. I'm a meat eater and a griller - I do steaks, I do chicken, I do fish. I have a broad palate!
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.
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There's just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate.
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If you want to see useful Perl examples, we can certainly arrange to have comp.lang.misc flooded with them, but I don't think that would help the advance of civilization.
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You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.
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About forty miles away from Paris, I began to see the old trench flares they were sending up at Le Bourget. I knew then I had made it, and as I approached the field with all its lights, it was a simple matter to circle once and then pick a spot sufficiently far away from the crowd to land O.K.
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I got to learn to surf.
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As the inventor of the Immortality Device, I basically just tell people what I honestly think.
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I look for a girl without pretense who is sweet and intelligent - preferably brunette, but that's not completely important.
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Being able to be one of the headline bands on Warped Tour was a dream I had since I was in middle school.
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Give her not greatness. For great souls must stand Alone and lonely in this little world: Cleft rocks that show the great Creator's hand, Thither by earthquakes hurled.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.
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I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
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A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. Don't wait for an inspired ending to come to mind. Work your way to the ending and see what comes up.
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All good art is abstract.
