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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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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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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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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The only thing I did is, I wore the same pair of socks in every decathlon I was ever in.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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It doesn't matter if you take a great picture if no one knows what it's about.
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I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
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That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
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I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
