Nico Muhly Quotes
For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Characters actors don't usually get noticed until they're about 38 or so.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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I don't focus on the scale. I focus on doing my job. The team staff and the program I've been working on, they've been touching on that, but I don't focus on the scale.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.
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I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.
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Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the fruits of science are used.
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I've always felt the man is king of the house and should be amused and treated well.
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I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.
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We do not agree that hindsight is required. The risks of internal strife in Iraq, active Iranian pursuit of its interests, regional instability, and al-Qaeda activity in Iraq, were each explicitly identified before the invasion.
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When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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Money is important in the rap industry because you're always rapping to be bigger than the other person - bigger than who you're rapping to. A lot of my music is really, really, really humbled down. I don't have as much money as the average rapper, but I'm still good.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Globalization is a fact of economic life.
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For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.
