John Otto Quotes
I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.
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I get my gossip from 'Nashville' on ABC.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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A lot of people meet me and they're like, 'Why aren't you crazy?'
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I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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I actually lost 90 pounds over the course of 15 months in order to save money on life insurance.
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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
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Asking the right questions is as important as answering them
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Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.
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I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
