John Oates Quotes
Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I've been really fortunate that my concert career has taken off hugely. I can make a living. I enjoy performing in front of a live audience, and I can do something different every time. Sometimes I'm with a quartet, sometimes I'm solo, sometimes with a symphony, and I get to go to different cities and meet different people.
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I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
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I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to get in the way, no electronic distraction devices, no high-tech baby equipment, just a mother carrying her little one everywhere, sharing a family bed and having the help of all the other women around to raise the baby.
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I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs.
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Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.
