John Otto Quotes
I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' is one of the greatest films of all time.
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A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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The first fight I saw live, the fighter I was shadowing lost in front of a crowd of forty thousand people. The scale of that is staggering to me. Undergoing that overlap between something very personal and something very public strikes me as both admirable and also somewhat terrifying.
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One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.
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Usually, my track record's pretty good with guys on base.
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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I was really conscious of that when I went in because I felt that I was pretty solid on the first one, but I didn't have the groove exactly where I wanted it.
