John Oates Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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I've always exuded some connection to my sexuality even as a kid. So to me, being sexy means staying connected to that part of me.
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I feel like fashion should not happen in the morning.
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If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I have five horses. My first was a professional jumper named Santos. I got him when I was 18.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
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You don't know what's going to happen in our business a year from now... so you have to be flexible and adaptable, and that's what we try to do.
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I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.
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I do what I do because it is the right thing to do. I am a warrior, and it is the way of the warrior to fight superior odds.
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I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'
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Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
