Jim Otto Quotes

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• Sketching is almost everything. It is the painter's identity, his style, his conviction, and then color is just a gift to the drawing.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Style
  • Color
  • Identity

• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • Long
  • Happy

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Kids
  • Me
  • Responsibility

• It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Time
  • School
  • Feeling

• I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.

  

  Gabriel Mann
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Think
  • Parents
  • Sex

• I saw a lot of haute couture all my childhood, and without knowing it I've learned from when I was a child to recognise beautiful fabrics.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • Beautiful
  • Childhood
  • Child

• It's very important for Taiwan to maintain its international contact.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Important
  • Very
  • Maintain

• It's later than it's ever been.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Been
  • Ever
  • Later

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Work
  • Money
  • Power

• I become quite obsessive when I get into something.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Something
  • Get
  • Become

• And since discriminating fans can pick and choose exactly what they want to buy, artists and their labels are more conscious than they've ever been of making sure that every song on a new album is as good as can be.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Good
  • Song
  • Choose

• There is no excuse for violence. There is never a justification for anyone to impose themselves on someone else. And it will always be incorrect when it comes to a man and a woman, regardless of what might have happened. You need to be man enough to take the blow. That is always the best way. Do not put your hands on a woman.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Violence
  • Blow

• 'Swagger' would be the word for 'Dirt On My Boots.' With the real funky drum loop and the ganjo rolling down, and then the fiddles and the guitar and steel, it really took an old school style where it's fiddle, steel, guitar, and mixed it with a drum loop.

  

  Jon Pardi
  • Real
  • School
  • Style

• Formal religion only takes us so far – for it is both safe and doable. Love, however, knows no limits, takes costly risks, and looks for ways to give more.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Love
  • Religion
  • Ways

• I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

  

  Joanna Scott
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Words

• When you jump up the Earth wants you back.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Jump

• You have to stay one level above everyone else.

  

  Jim Otto