Paolo Nutini Quotes
I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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I feel that one of the hardest things in acting is the way you need to switch your emotions.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I've become really interested in permaculture, simplifying my life and doing everything I can to develop more of a sustainable lifestyle.
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I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.
Colson Whitehead -
I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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I like to record something pretty much as soon as I have an idea for a song, but I'm on so many buses, I have to record on my mobile.
