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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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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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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Black women's feelings of responsibility for nurturing the children in their own extended family networks have stimulated a more generalized ethic of care where black women feel accountable to all the black community's children.
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'When it comes to strangers with guns,' I told her, 'I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust.'
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When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
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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.
