Jim Otto Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I hate big models.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
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I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.
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Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.
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The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
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Being green and clean is not just an aspiration but an action.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.
