Paolo Nutini Quotes
The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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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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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make things that are going good go better?
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
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A good spicy challenge strikes a balance between flavour and fear.
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The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.
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God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!
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All of my films have changed my life. I've met so many people and broadened my world view.
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The people I admire are Tim Buckley and John Martyn - singers that grew into themselves and were honest. John Martyn is one of the great soul singers because soul is not a genre; it's a feeling.
