Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
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I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.
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Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is.
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The longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist, the more likely your success.
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I wanted to write joyful music that made other people feel good. That’s what I tried to do for the past 27 years.
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Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
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Whatever I'm writing comes organically out of my life.
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I was homeschooled for several years.
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Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
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What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.
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My real musical discovery started when I was 10 with Stevie Wonder and the Jackson 5, and acts that I connected with because they were young when they were doing it, like me. Then I kind of came into my own a couple of years later; I found new artists that shaped my musical landscape. For instance, Kings of Leon played a big part in that.
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My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.
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One thing you cannot control is nature.
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I want the love that cannot help but love; Loving, like God, for very sake of love.
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I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.
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When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.
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Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently.
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One thing I can't stand is late kidnappers.
