Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible, killer songs that also are hits, or I just don't have a chance.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Sometimes you have to exercise your insanity, to really make it strong.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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I haven't had a chance really to do a martial arts role, but I really want to. I want to act like Jackie Chan in a movie.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.
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For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
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Once they're on paper, they're gone. I like to do as much with the words, as far as image goes.
