John Otto Quotes
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I was never one of those surly teenagers who doesn't smile. My lovely godfather said it was always lovely to see me because I was the only teenager who smiled. And I was so in awe of him, I thought it was one of the best things anyone had ever said to me. So it made me want to live up to what he said.
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My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.
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I was a Presbyterian minister at a small church in Omaha, Nebraska.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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I'm tired of high policy talks. I want to focus on nuts and bolts.
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I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'
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I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
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I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.
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To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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We've got many different sides of music to us.
