Paolo Nutini Quotes
I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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There's a melody in everything. And once you find the melody, then you connect immediately with the heart. Because sometimes English or Spanish, Swahili or any language gets in the way. But nothing penetrates the heart faster than the melody.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
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Whenever I write a novel, most of the time it starts with barest slip of an idea.
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In antihistory, time is an illusion.
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He didn't even take up golf because it would take away time from his family or children or grandchildren. He was completely selfless.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I get nervous all the time. Both on and off stage. You just hope it turns into adrenaline.
