John Otway Quotes

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

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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.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Fashion
  • Model
  • Week

• There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Interesting
  • Face
  • Landscape

• 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.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Library
  • Then

• I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Like

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.

  

  Raf Simons
  • She
  • Way
  • Fashion

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Want

• See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • See
  • Surprise
  • Awards

• A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Idea
  • Revolution
  • Found

• 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.

  

  Lana Wachowski
  • World
  • Career
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• 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.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Music
  • Business
  • Deep

• 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.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• I remember playing the Mad Hatter in a school play and feeling very comfortable in the character.

  

  John Burnside
  • School
  • Character
  • Remember

• I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Twitter

• One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

  

  Martin Scorsese
  • Time
  • Good
  • Reading

• Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

  

  Austan Goolsbee
  • Up
  • Health

• Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

  

  John Otway
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