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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People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was from 1900 to the '60s.
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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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When you're young, you're stupid.
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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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Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.
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The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.
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I'd done a bachelor's degree, which I'd enjoyed, but I didn't know what to do with my life at the time. I was conflicted, and, being a hopeless romantic, I followed my girlfriend at the time to Vanderbilt, where, obviously, we broke up a couple of months later.
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In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
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Since I became part of the zeitgeist, I've been called a sellout many times.
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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.
