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Pete Townshend Quotes

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Pete Townshend

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: british
Birth: May 19, 1945

Topics

Walk Me Wind Feel Want Nervous

I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.

Jimmy Scott

Wife Encouragement New Desire Sing

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.

Jerry Stiller

War Hollywood Vietnam War Never Made

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

Jessica Lowndes

Day New York Dream New One Day Mine

When asked if I miss being in government, I usually try to lighten the moment by responding that I awake most days, read the paper, and then observe that, 'It's yet another great day to be the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.'

Michael Hayden

Great Moment Day Intelligence Try

Future's like an older brother to me, and Thug's more like a brother my age.

Metro Boomin

Future Age Brother Me Thug More

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

Anand Giridharadas

Time People Start You Election Hear

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

Robert Benchley

End Skin Up China Left Going

The thing I fear most is fear.

Michel de Montaigne

Fear Most Thing

My publishers find me really challenging, as a lot of the time, I don't even know what I'm going to be writing about until I sit down to do it.

Lisa Jewell

Time Me Writing Find Down Know

I'm fine with the life I have.

Chris Kattan

Life Fine

The way some papers write about me, you'd think I was some kind of gold digger. The truth is, I've always earned my own money. Before I became a model in Europe, I even worked in a bakery store - for $1.50 an hour. It's a big jump from a bakery store to driving a Mercedes in California, but I'm the same person inside.

Brigitte Nielsen

Truth Money Me Gold Truth Is Think

The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.

Sydney Madwed

Change Tired People World Sick Way