Peter Gabriel Quotes
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Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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I'm a huge hip hop fan going way back, like, back to '83. I had my Gemini mixer listening to Run-DMC and Kurtis Blow.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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I started gigging when I was about 16, and I was way too young to be in the clubs.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray.
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We live a short enough time on this earth. A man should do what he loves.
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We should be moving toward local currencies not global or European currencies.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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My crazy training-and-competition schedule leaves very little time to focus on my hair.
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Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.