John Otway Quotes
I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
Quotes to Explore
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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It's not easy to talk about things that are still hurting.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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A good impression is sort of a juxtaposition of disparate elements.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
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It's okay to lie as long as you reach a higher truth doing it.
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In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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I was pretty ambitious as a child to want to be a star with the talent I had, but I want to finish what I started and bring the fans along with me.
