Quote by Pete Townshend
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by clas

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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I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me, and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion. – Pete Townshend

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What Im trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. Its my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think its very much alive. – Pete Townshend

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. – Pete Townshend

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Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and its kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they dont necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video. – Jenna Dewan

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If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children. – Anna Quindlen

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I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, thats real. Mistreatment of other people because Im better than you are is such a sad part of the world. – Melissa Leo

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sad

You cant have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front – or a happy without a sad. – Harlan Coben

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