John Oates Quotes

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

John Oates

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The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.

Jessica Bird

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I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is so unique and bizarre, and it's really interesting to explore that whole universe with the language and brutality going on there. With 'Inferno,' there's the Dan Brown mystery.

Sidse Babett Knudsen

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One thing about the fantasy dinner party idea that no one considers is whether these people are going to get on. I would say John McEnroe and Ian McEwan, but what would they have to say to each other?

Robert Webb

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One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

Mary Pipher

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I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.

MaryJanice Davidson

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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Rowan Atkinson

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Just look around; you can't help but laugh at something.

Mike Ross

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I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.

Miriam Margolyes

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I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.

Lisa Marie Presley

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Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

Joseph P. Kennedy

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