Otis Blackwell Quotes
I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.
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The goal of physiological research is functional nature.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.
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Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.
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In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, and entered its first postseason competition ever - the National Invitation Tournament - finishing third. That season's success seemed to vault St. Joe's into the national collegiate basketball scene, and it has been there since.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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'Well,' he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. 'Here we are again.'
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About every four years, someone says to me, 'I've got a friend who looks exactly like you.' What can you say to this?
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It's not easy to stand out as a young artist.
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I think Ian MacKaye is everything that I always wanted to be.
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I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
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Unfortunately, we are a society that does look down on divorce when, ironically, there are more single divorced people in the world right now. So, the fact of the matter is that it's a reality, and more people should obviously embrace wanting to change, wanting to move on from a relationship that just no longer works for them.
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My basic influence had probably been Peter Max.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.
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Before Hillary-bashing became its own thing, she was subjected to the standard-issue woman-bashing used on every powerful woman in Washington.
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My very first job was working on a TV show that was a prestigious TV show and well done - was called 'Family.'
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I take a few pictures a week, but the best part is waiting for my film to be developed. The suspense is exciting, and the reward is great.
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An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation.
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Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell.
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Our nature holds so much envy and malice that our pleasure in our own advantages is not so great as our distress at others'.
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I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.
