Peter Tork Quotes

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Peter Tork

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MusicNowWantStarJustPop

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

Meg Wolitzer

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My mum had this amazing ability to deflect things, and from an early age, I knew what I was not supposed to talk about.

John Lanchester

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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.

Jeanne Moreau

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I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

Michael Bay

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Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now.

Simon Van Booy

LoveDeathValueMeWorldThink

I got fed up with the human race, really. I got a very negative feeling about human potentials. And for a while, I thought I might write a book without any human beings in it whatsoever.

Michel Faber

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But it all came, and for me, hip-hop has done more for racial divide and racial sort of bringing together than anything in the last 30 years. Seeing people like Eminem sounding like somebody like Jay-Z and just the racial aspects of it all.

Michael Rapaport

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Without - you know, good intelligence stops plots against the homeland. Without that intelligence, we cannot effectively stop it.

Michael McCaul

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I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films.

Juicy J

MeWriteGotFilmSongsSome

Canada has a stand on human rights in many places, just not when Donald Trump violates them in Latino neighbourhoods.

Denise Dresser

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My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

Donna Leon

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I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

Peter Ackroyd

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