Paolo Nutini Quotes

I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I'd always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I'd always try and find another harmony that wasn't there.

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• Happiness is an inside job.

  

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• Military preparedness is absolutely a form of strength.

  

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• Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.

  

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• Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

  

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• You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?

  

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• Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.

  

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• My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

  

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• I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.

  

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• If I feel frustrated in a situation, I take a deep breath and walk away.

  

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• The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.

  

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• It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.

  

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• If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'

  

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• True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

  

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• Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

  

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• Somehow, trumpet is the reference point for me – it was actually my first instrument.

  

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• I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

  

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• Terrorists who try to sow chaos, they must be met with force and they must also be met, though, with a forceful commitment to uphold the rule of law, and respect for human rights, and to treat everybody who’s peaceful and law-abiding fairly and equally.

  

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• Far from mortal cares retreating, Sordid hopes and vain desires, Here, our willing footsteps meeting, Every heart to heaven aspires.

  

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• If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.

  

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• I think it was definitely a love for the four- or five-part vocal male harmony groups that really took me away. I'd always try and be, like, the fifth Drifter; I'd always try and find another harmony that wasn't there.

  

  Paolo Nutini