John Otway Quotes
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, 'I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.'
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.
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Feminism is alienating women from their own bodies … because they don’t understand that they have something that men want, okay? So they’re encouraged to interpret all male lust as oppressive and victimizing and negative, instead of seeing that it is up to them to husband this flame. They have a flame, and it’s enormously powerful…
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Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
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The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
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Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.
