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At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.' -- Rob Sheffield
Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall. -- Morley Safer
Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls. -- Erin Kenny
I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall. -- Selma Blair
We're the perfect combination. Colonel's an old carny, and me, I'm off the wall. -- Elvis Presley
The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street. -- Mason Cooley
If I hung one of my paintings next to someone else's, I knew mine would kind of pop off the wall. -- Julian Schnabel
I went through about six or seven painting methods just to see what I didn't want to do. And then I got off the wall, and went into the environment. -- Agnes Denes
Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going. -- Ashley Bickerton
Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls. -- Sid Fleischman
Perhaps this is why lunatics have a harder time dating, not because they are off the wall but because it is hard to find soemone who is willing to date so many people in one person. -- Elif Safak
...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge. -- Larry Sultan
The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals. -- Roger von Oech
Usually I try to be there by six. Everything has been taken off the walls so that there's nothing to arrest my sight. On the bed I have Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, a Bible, and a deck of playing cards. -- Toni Morrison
Every person I talk to has a story about how their smoke alarm went off or woke them up with a battery beeping. So you take it off the wall and you take the battery out and say screw this. They hate the products. -- Tony Fadell
I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game. -- Caitlin Lowe
During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That's how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff. -- Bootsy Collins
My girlfriend has the greatest story as to why she isn't religious anymore. When she was a kid, like 12 years old, her parents nailed a 25 pound crucifix to the wall right above her bed. About two weeks later, in the middle of the night, the crucifix falls off the wall and leaves a two inch gash in the back of her dad's head. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. -- Afrojack
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done! -- Connie Britton
The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I'm exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I can't distinguish which is which, and that really drives me crazy. -- Alexis De Veaux
I like to do projects that are off-the-wall and on top-of-the-wall. -- Meital Dohan
I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall. -- Tab Hunter
Sometimes, in public life, people ask inappropriate, off-the-wall kinds of questions, don't they? -- Hillary Clinton
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall. -- Jean-Claude Van Damme
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field. -- Paul Keating
I've had time off, and it drove me nuts. I was crawling up the wall. -- Bob Newhart
Pete and Repeat were sitting on a wall. Pete fell off. Who was left? Repeat. -- Bruce Nauman
Say yes, babe, or I'll spill you off over the Wall next time - got it? -- Robin McKinley
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. -- Paul Keating
People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall. -- Noel Clarke
I would describe my style as off the wall. I like stuff that doesn't match. I just like to stand out. -- Kevin Durant
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director. -- George A. Romero
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate. -- Brock Yates
As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall. -- Melanie Mayron
To obsess too virulently is to walk alone in anxiety. But to obsess too little is to wall oneself off from one's own creativity. -- Eric Maisel
It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite. -- Kevin Jorgeson
I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank. -- Beck
My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. -- Daniel Radcliffe
When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences. -- E. L. Doctorow
It turns out that understanding the British public is not rocket science. The British appreciate honesty and they also have a bonkers, off-the-wall sense of humour like me. -- Nicole Scherzinger
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off. -- Thomas Frank
I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun! -- Taylor Swift
Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off. -- Curtis Jackson
Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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