Nico Muhly Quotes
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be.
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I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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As an actor, what I can do is tell the truth. At least, I hope I can tell the truth - a dramatic truth, but still an honest portrayal.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
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I think there's something really powerful and refreshing about a woman who is unapologetic.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
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I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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NHL clubs have not wanted to go to the Olympics, and we have been saying that for months if not years.
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While I was filming 'Kong' - and I don't play a very capable Army Ranger in 'Kong'; I play a completely different character - but we had a lot of Army Rangers there, former Army Rangers, and Navy SEALs, who were working on the movie with us for the other characters, for the Army guys in the movie.
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I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.