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John Otway Quotes

Enthusiasm and misplaced belief can take you a long way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: english
Birth: October 2, 1952

Topics

Enthusiasm Long You Belief Way Take

I like doing comedy, I like doing drama. Naturally I like to do, I like doing dramas, I like conflict, and when I do a comedy, you know, I've found that, like, romantic comedy is the trickiest one, because often it's neither: it's not romantic and it's not funny. So, like, I like a comedy that's biting. It's biting humor or really quirky humor.

Funny Romantic Humor Conflict Comedy

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

Ideas Small Think You Information

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.

Simple You Dollar Got Just Chain

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Life My Life True Write Simply Much

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

Live Better You London Could Had

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

Parents Holidays Abundance Like Kids

'Human Target' was probably one of the best projects I ever worked on - that and 'Dr.Thirteen.' I just appreciated how smart Peter Milligan's writing is. It was smart and entertaining.

Best Smart Writing Target Human How

I learned how to be a learner. When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Job People Direction Key Better You

Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.

Alfred Marshall

Differences Kind Degree Economic

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.

Passion Desire Kind Always Nobility

Laughter is inner jogging.

Laughter Jogging Inner

The 'crownd' is still the unit, the favourite coin of the labourers, especially the elder folk. They use the word something in the same sense as the dollar, and look with regret upon the gradual disappearance of the broad silver disc with the figure of 'St. Gaarge' conquering the dragon.

Richard Jefferies

Regret Look Silver Same Coin Dollar

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