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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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
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If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
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How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.
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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
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I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.
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We've got many different sides of music to us.
