Otis Blackwell Quotes
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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I'm thinking of killing everyone whose name is a palindrome
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
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In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody.
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By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.
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When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
