Nico Muhly Quotes
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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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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 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 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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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
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I'm an idiot.
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I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.
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Bottom line: I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.
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I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
