Nico Muhly Quotes
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A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.
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It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.
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It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.
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Madonna did amazing songs. She had an amazing sense of style, without a stylist. And she was flawed, and sometimes she admitted it. I'll fight the fight for Madonna. I think she should send me some chocolates or something to thank me.
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We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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I love my wife. She had money when I didn't.
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In our depths, I think we all feel very small in relation to the greater universe and God.
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I strongly favor shortening the campaign season and putting more primaries and caucuses on the same day, preferably regionally.
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The confusing thing, I thought, was that most of America already knew that we were overly reliant on oil, especially on foreign oil. But it was news that this administration had begun to at least acknowledge that problem.
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If you ever want to get anywhere in life, you're going to have to push it, and somebody's going to push you to get there. End of story.
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Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.
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I can't work with my brother without laughing.
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Acting is doing. The more you do, the more you learn. Work begets work.
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My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
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I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.
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Contact would hurt, might be fatal, and yet she couldn’t stop herself. Obsession or compulsion, she didn’t know, but she did know that before this was over, she’d either end up in Dmitri’s bed . . . or one of them would bleed darkest red.
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The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people.
