Pete Townshend Quotes

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend

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LiveSadPeopleHypocrisyPlace

The world remains ever the same.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

WorldSameRemainsEver

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

Michael Ignatieff

LifeBusinessPoliticsUglyPeople

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Michael Emerson

TimeMomentExperiencePresentStand

Before I was an actor, I was a fan.

Sterling K. Brown

ActorFanBefore

I believe that we are still hovering around the realm of Asians playing all types of Asians. I do not see that changing any time soon just because there is a limited pool of Asian actors.

Steven Yeun

TimeBelievePoolJust BecauseSee

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

Tony Judt

MoneyParentsThinkLondonMy Own

Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.

Tom Frieden

HealthControlFactsKnowImportant

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

Roger McGuinn

SongSometimesOnceThemRefine

Out on the hill under the helmet, nobody sees your face or hair, but then you take it off, and they do - that's the part I'm nervous about.

Mikaela Shiffrin

HairFaceYouHelmetNobodyHill

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

Josh Fox

MusicPeopleCameraAttentionYou

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

Jonathan Evison

GoNeverLet GoAnythingWriter

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

Ansel Elgort

SmileFaceGetOffHatedPerforming

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