John Oates Quotes
Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.
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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
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I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
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Back in the early '90s, I started going to Nashville to do a lot of co-writes. One of the first people I met there was Keith Follese. Keith and his wife Adrienne are both songwriters, and we wrote some songs together.
