Paolo Nutini Quotes
The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.
Quotes to Explore
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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And you know when I was growing up, I knew I wanted to have kids, but I knew I didn't want to do it alone. Then once I was 41, 42, I had to accept that I probably wouldn't have kids unless I decided to adopt later on, but even then it would be with a partner.
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I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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As a girl who was raised on the idea that we should give back to our community as much as possible, I believe that we have more power than we think when it comes to making change.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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My maternal grandmother made fantastic ox tongue with velvety roasted potatoes. She cooked sweet red cabbage and lovely cauliflower with butter and bread crumbs.
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All of my books have been about authentic Italian food in Italy and bringing that message about simple and authentic food.
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I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see.
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I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.
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The songs are just an attempt to document what's been happening in my life. If people can relate to what's going on with me, then that's great.
