James Otis Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identities than other superheroes. No one ever says, 'Peter Parker was a nerdy kid. He can't possibly be Spider-Man, attract a good-looking gal, work in a newspaper, etc.' And no one gets hung up on whether his nerdiness is a disguise.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
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I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's nothing. Let me tell you what a tough crowd is. A tough crowd is going to a morning service and you got six people there and you gotta pat your house payment. That's a tough crowd.
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Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.
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My popularity has to do with the divorce between modern art, where everything is obscure, and the viewer who often feels he needs a professor to tell them whether it's good or not. I believe a painting has to talk directly to the viewer, with composition, color and design, without a professor to explain it.
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I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.
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I buy vintage - mainly Alaia and some Westwood - but 90 per cent of the time, I wear my own designs.
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If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.
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I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.
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Taxation without representation is tyranny.
