David Oakes Quotes

You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.

David Oakes

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• I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Life
  • Movie
  • My Life

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Capable

• The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.

  

  Young Thug
  • Why
  • Reason
  • Young

• My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Up
  • Good
  • Husband

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Why
  • Myself

• In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

  

  Manfred Mann
  • Name
  • News
  • Jazz

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• The first rappers I ever got into were Wu-Tang, Mobb Deep, and Nas. Those are the guys. Those are the dudes that flipped my wig.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Deep
  • First
  • Wig

• I hated meeting people at bars when I was single because it's all about the looks and the funny line.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • People
  • Funny
  • Single

• True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • True
  • Kind
  • Better

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• Rationalization may be defined as self-deception by reasoning.

  

  Karen Horney
  • May
  • Deception

• If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Men
  • Hate

• She's not a bad girl becauseShe made me see, hmmm...How love could be.But she's a bad girl because (bad girl because)She wants to be free, hmmmm... (bad girl because)She wants to be free (bad girl)

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • She
  • Bad
  • Free

• I think I'm very strong at dialogue, I think I'm very strong in characterization. I think sometimes I use dialogue and character work to cover weaknesses in my plotting.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Work
  • Character
  • Strong

• I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

  

  Andrew Davies
  • Mistake

• Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

  

  James Hillman
  • Country
  • American

• I very rarely play the piano at home. Deliberately, so that when I do play it, I love it.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Home
  • Piano
  • I Love It

• I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

  

  Andy Kaufman
  • Good
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Well, from 1969 to 1984, until he died of AIDS, a teacher and I were very good friends. He even attended celebrations at my home, and I have to admit I even went with him to gay bars once in a while. So I know a homophobe when I see one. Pat Buchanan ain't no homophobe, believe me.

  

  Ezola B. Foster
  • Friends
  • Teacher
  • Believe Me

• You're in the public eye and you get treated better than royalty, and then you're dropped down to earth with nothing. You may not have any money for rent, and you have no friends because they all think you're big and famous now.

  

  David Oakes
  • Thinking
  • Friends
  • Famous