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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Yugoslavia was a kind of superpower. Great movies. Beautiful novels. Great rock-and-roll. We became a superpower in basketball. The problem is that people needed to identify more strongly with it after Tito and his awful, tricky way of leading the country.
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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
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I spent my entire childhood observing people. I still do.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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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.
