Ric Ocasek (Richard Theodore Otcasek) Quotes
I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
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I never left doo wop.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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I think beautiful independent films are made, and I think they're as close to what theater can be because they're not loaded with all of the extra stuff. It's human, and it's more organic, but theater is very unique... It's a different connection altogether.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.
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I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.
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'Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more.
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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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The road to success can take a detour. I tell people that I don't care if they came from Yale or jail, it's what you do from today that counts.
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I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.
