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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I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand.
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I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.
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With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
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Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.
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Anyone I don't know, in my emails or texts, I just delete. If it's someone legitimate, they'll send it again.
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I also played in the 1967 Super Bowl against the Green Bay Packers.
