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

• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• 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

• Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Lie

• 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

• As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • World
  • Free
  • Moral

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

  

  Bob Kerrey
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• I'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • Time
  • Black
  • Discipline

• Ah," she cried, "you look so cool." Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool," she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Together
  • Alone

• In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Famous
  • Fame
  • Journalism

• In some ways, what I need is a wife.

  

  Anne Beatts
  • Wife

• You have to stay one level above everyone else.

  

  Jim Otto