John Oates Quotes

Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates

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• As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.

  

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• A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

  

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• I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

  

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• It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

  

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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

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• I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.

  

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• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

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• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

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• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

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• I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

  

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• I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

  

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• Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.

  

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• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

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• I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.

  

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• I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.

  

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• I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

  

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• You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.

  

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• I live a life of creating, sharing music with wonderful musicians that I love like family, and spreading a message through music that life is yours to live wide open, and do it your way with love.

  

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• Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

  

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• As far as superhero stories, what's appealing is of course that aspect of wish fulfillment. I mean, you start out reading them as a kid, and a couple things jump out at you - there are heroes out there, and you wish you could run into a phone booth and change your life, or be like Peter Parker and put on a mask and become a hero.

  

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• I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

  

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• Instagram is a place for businesses to build their business.

  

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• Personally, I've never really wanted to be a rock star. That wasn't my motivation in life. It kind of happened.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Life
  • Rock
  • Star