Pete Yorn Quotes
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I have only one life, so I want to make sure it's a good one.
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I have played cricket on my own terms.
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How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.
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Music evokes a lot of different emotions and triggers different senses.
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I always think that today is the best day that there's ever been. The song that I'm working on is always the best song I've ever written. The woman I'm looking at is the most incomprehensibly beautiful woman I've ever seen. These dogs that I have now are, by far, the best dogs I've ever had - although, so were the last pair of dogs I had.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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When I have a bad show, I can't wait until I can get back on stage to forget about it.
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Publishing is not my world.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
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Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.
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The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.
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The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.
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'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
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We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'
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I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.
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A major focus of 'Reality Hunger' is appropriation and plagiarism and what these terms mean. I can hardly treat the topic deeply without engaging in it. That would be like writing a book about lying and not being permitted to lie in it.
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Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
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Describing one competitive advantage of IBM's Deep Blue chess computer. It has no fear.
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And it's the same sad song coming back again. The same old song, flows back again.
