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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Time limits are fictional. Losing all sense of time is actually the way to reality. We use clocks and calendars for convenience sake, not because that kind of time is real.
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Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.
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In Tehran, the 444 days of the Iran Hostage Crisis was the first world event in which you could literally have live events beamed into your living room. Now, every world event plays out on its own, and as a media event.
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Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.
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If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.
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My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.
