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Otis Blackwell Quotes

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 16, 1932 - May 6, 2002

Topics

Style People Writing Say Kind Hard

As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.

Thought Horror Never Watching Act

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

Man Me Sand You Look Know

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Love Me Puzzle Out Figuring Puzzles

Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Love Child Tough Parent You Her

The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs.

Support Economics Big Modern

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

I Am Dinner Small Friends Someone

I grew up playing music and enjoying good food, friends and family in my own backyard.

Family Good Music Food Good Food

There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.

Good Beauty Music Sadness Think

More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

Michelle Alexander

People Guilty More Never Jury Tried

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

Focus Fun People Me Mom Saying

When I reflect on the Colbert interview, it moved so quickly that what we didn't do was define white privilege, and I wish we had done that. White privilege is the benefit resulting from white being seen as the standard, regardless of gender and income.

Wish Gender White Done Privilege

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

Mother I Am Me Horse Enjoy You

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