Nico Muhly Quotes
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I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.
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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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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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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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We have to slow down the emissions of carbon dioxide and methane from coal burning, oil and eventually natural gas... And the best ways to do that are energy efficiency and a switch to renewables.
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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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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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I would describe my aesthetic as definitely personal and harmonious with an eclectic yet bohemian sensibility.
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Stand-up is live, so I'm used to being live for most of my career. It's interesting.
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I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
