Oliver Herford Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
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I said, I don't want to paint things like Picasso's women and Matisse's odalisques lying on couches with pillows. I don't want to paint people. I want to paint something I have never seen before. I don't want to make what I'm looking at. I want the fragments.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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I was born in Staten Island, New York. But I call my hometown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, because that's basically where I ended up from age eight on. But right after Staten Island... I've lived everywhere from Texas, to Japan for three years, to New Jersey. I'm this traveling girl. My father was in the Army, so I guess I'm an Army brat.
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As long as there is a Southern Ocean whale sanctuary, Sea Shepherd crew will continue to patrol and defend it.
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There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
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Many are called but few get up.
