Nico Muhly Quotes
When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
-
People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
-
It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
-
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
-
I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
-
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
-
I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
-
I'm about 5' 10", and my hair is the length of my whole body now. We grow our hair because of faith, but it's getting heavy. Most of the rastas I know with hair my length are elders, and they keep it tied up, but for a young person who's active and running around, the weight is a big thing. So to play sports, I put it in a backpack.
-
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
-
My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
-
I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
-
Yes, I was a hippy - absolutely a hippy.
-
Politics has become entertainment.
-
I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.
-
What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
-
I think it's a very central tenet to it yes, it is. I can't bear it, I can't bear inequality, I can't bear bad behaviour to other people. I cannot bear it that people are mean to people who can't help what they are.
-
I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
-
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.
-
In my heart, I'm so far from done.
-
The only rule I have is to be as authentic and spontaneous as possible. I would never wear something I don't feel comfortable in.
-
Baseball performance is an outcome of opposing forces.
-
Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.
-
When you're writing something new, writing something that's your own, basically you have nothing else to do except either invent a trick, use someone else's trick, or have no trick and get a bad performance.
