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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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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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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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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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
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There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.
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If true happiness depended on the thoughts of man, then all philosophers and deep thinkers would be filled to overflowing with it.
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
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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.
