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'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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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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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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So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?
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It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
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The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
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I'm a very social person, and I like being in different kinds of environments.
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I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
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Growing up, I did not have many friends with parents who were together.
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As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
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I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.
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I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.
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With the guitar I've suffered a great deal, but when I've had a good time, the suffering seemed worthwhile.
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All good art is abstract.
