John Newman (John William Peter Newman) Quotes
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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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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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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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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I have been described as a very mysterious human being and that hurts a little bit, because it's not like that at all.
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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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It's challenging to open for someone: You've got to prep the audience, get them in the mood, and get their attention if they don't know you. You're going to show them what songs you've got. You've got to leave your mark.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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When I was young, I wasn't disciplined at all.
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I don't enjoy doing stand-up. I see it as being like exercise: I feel good about it after I've done it.
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The technology I like is the American paperback edition of 'Freedom.' I can spill water on it, and it would still work! So it's pretty good technology.
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All good art is abstract.
