Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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The quality of TV, I think, is at an all-time high. The problem with it is the way that we end up consuming it - generally a cable box. A satellite receiver is, to me, nothing more than a glorified VCR.
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My best decision was to choose to go to Wall Street over law. I learned a lot and focused on the expanding software industry at a time when the independent software industry was just beginning.
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If you like standup and decide that it's overtaking your life and want to hate it, watch 1,000 standup comedians who are trying to get on a TV show.
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I know about the tech industry in that I follow what apps are hot and software development. I know my way around different browsers. I know how to restart a computer.
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I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
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The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Girls run the world.
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Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
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An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.
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Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.
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Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.
