Carre Otis Quotes
I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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A ton of little girls I talk to, they want to be actresses or singers or models.
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I want to do a character in a one-woman show who's a yoga teacher from the Bronx. I could do the best accent: 'Raise yaw ahms up! Reach faw da sky!'
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Socialism is nothing more nor less than the social, political and ideological system which breaks the fetters upon economic growth created under capitalism and opens the way to a new period of economic and social expansion on a much larger scale.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!
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Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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Whenever I'm in Kansas City, I think back to all the jazz-blues greats who played the blues here - like Count Basie, Charlie Parker and Jay McShann. I watched those guys jam in different places and heard a lot of things - but I couldn't do what they did. They were too good.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I wrote and finished the script for 'Man in the Middle' two weeks after the September 11 bombing. It's a very American film about an ex-diplomat based in the Middle East, a leader in the U.S. administration who now sells used cars in the Middle East.
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A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
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We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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Leadership isn't answering the questions others ask. Leadership is asking others to answer their own questions.
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I did some great work with my Calvin Klein ads on the motorcycle. It was really groundbreaking because people hadn't seen a woman actually riding a motorcycle before.
