Paolo Nutini Quotes
When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
Quotes to Explore
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet playing. Another one is the starting what was first called jazz rock in 1967 when I started my first band, later became jazz fusion by the 1970s.
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I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
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I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.
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I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don't know what they want until it walks into the room - you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!
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I write a lot about other people, like family and friends. I look at their lives and relationships and think, 'Well, if I was in your position, this is how I would see it.'
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My kids know the importance of being active – and that's why teaming up with the USTA was such an organic fit for me. They are making strives to get families outside – and using tennis as a way to get kids to stay active.
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I have to have three or four books going simultaneously. If I'm not impressed in the first 20 pages, I don't bother reading the rest, especially with novels. I'm not a book-club style reader. I'm not looking for life lessons or wanting people to think I'm smart because I'm reading a certain book.
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When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
