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From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was from Berlin; she was a silent movie actress and friends with Marlene Dietrich. So she knew all about film make-up and prosthetics and stuff like that and what they used to do in those days. And she taught me all that as a child.
— Pete Burns
Tags: friends, face, mother, me

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The idea of travelling all over the world singing the same songs sounds like hell. How people like Tina Turner still do it with enthusiasm is beyond me.
— Pete Burns
Tags: hell, world, people, me
What I'm trying to achieve with my surgery is my own personal satisfaction. It's narcissism.
— Pete Burns
Tags: own, achieve, my-own, satisfaction
I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
— Pete Burns
Tags: elvis-presley, clock, trash, like
You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.
— Pete Burns
Tags: up, your, yourself, you
Surely, marriage is throwing anchor and saying, 'This is where I'm staying. I've made my choice, and this is all I want because I've been on the up and down escalator, through the revolving door, and I want to stand still.' That's what I expected.
— Pete Burns
Tags: stand, down, saying, marriage
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