Alessandro Nivola Quotes
There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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Let's make sure that we don't close down 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas and leave women with nowhere to go and put them in a situation where their health will be at risk, because what we do know is that closing down the ability to access that service unfortunately does not take the need away or women's confronting that issue away.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Vulnerable young women are being brainwashed by the radical lies of ISIS militants in the Middle East.
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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I'm a real romantic.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
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I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about relationships or somebody leaving you or something, a lot of lyrics are partly about failed relationships I'd had, but they were also about my Dad, and being abandoned as a kid.
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There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
