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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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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I hate interference, and I don't interfere in others' lives.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
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There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.
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My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.
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I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.
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Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting thingsAnd crawl back into bed to dream of a timeWhen your heart was open wide and you love things just becauseLike the sick and dying
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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.
