Paolo Nutini Quotes

My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.

  

  Barbet Schroeder
  • Country
  • Childhood
  • Been

• Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

  

  Edith Head
  • Woman
  • Dresses
  • Lady

• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Boyfriend

• I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Small

• I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • You
  • Summer

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Process
  • August
  • Thursday

• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Love
  • Comedy
  • Spontaneous

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Poor
  • Investment
  • Data

• When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Money
  • Kids

• The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Mistake

• I think just knowing you're married and having that in the back of your mind all the time - it sounds official, but it doesn't really feel any different. We don't do anything differently than we did before.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mind

• When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• They're talking about kids who have grand mal seizures, and they've discovered that marijuana eases that down to where these children can have a life. That right there, to me, says, 'Legalize it across the board!'

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Marijuana

• Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

  

  Pitbull
  • Time
  • Moving

• I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.

  

  Claudia Lee
  • Different
  • Song

• My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Life
  • Words
  • Inspiration