John Oates Quotes
With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
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You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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Sound as medium has an incredible elasticity. So, of course, it is tempting for artists of other fields to try something with sounds. Why not? We are living in the age when there is no limit in gathering all forms of art and music to mix it together if you so desire.
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What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else – when you want to be another person.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I want to continue doing as big a variety of things as I can do, and if that means I have the honor of getting to do more feature work, I would love that. I know that if I make any other long-term TV commitments, it's not going to be on a drama.
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I would like to be in a superhero movie where I do martial arts.
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My style has evolved in a nice way, but everyone has bad moments.
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When I started to record, I could sing in pitch, but that was maybe about it.
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天际秋云薄，从西万里风。今朝好晴景，久雨不妨农。塞柳行疏翠，山梨结小红。胡笳楼上发，一雁入高空。
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We're not really brought up in a culture where we believe we're meant to be happy, that peace is our birthright. It's not what we're taught; quite the opposite, actually. With all the expectations and the negative stories going on in the world, we have a lot to overcome.
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I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.
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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
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With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.
