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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Attitude is attitude, whether you're a West Coast gangster or East Coast gangster, you know?
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I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.
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All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.
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You don't get to choose where you were born; you only get to choose where you live.
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After college, I went to England and studied for a couple years.
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Many are called but few get up.
