John Oates Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
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I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimov, I could write a paragraph about how each of these writers influenced me, my writing, and my thoughts, and do to this day.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
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I love receiving fan mail.
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I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
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We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
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I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of 'Girl Online.' I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book!
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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
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Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
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The essence of procrastination lies in not doing what you think you should be doing, a mental contortion that surely accounts for the great psychic toll the habit takes on people. This is the perplexing thing about procrastination: although it seems to involve avoiding unpleasant tasks, indulging in it generally doesn't make people happy.
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Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.
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I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.
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Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.
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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
