Alva Noto Quotes
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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We all deal with being unfairly judged.
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I never looked at people or singing as commodities.
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When you're a kid, and you grow up, it takes some time for people to associate you with more things other than that initial thing.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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If you could see the earth illuminated when you were in a place as dark as night, it would look to you more splendid than the moon.
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Oh for a blast of that dread horn on Fontarabian echoes borne!
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How very economical! (¡Pero que economía más grande!)
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Each for himself is still the ruleWe learn it when we go to school-The devil take the hindmost, O!
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One saw I was alive. Loosenedhis belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separatethis from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
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Peace of Mind? Don't leave home or go home without it.
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One of my first overseas trips with WWE was to France. I walked out of our hotel, and I see a little kid walking toward me with his mom. He gets a couple of steps past me and he stops in his tracks. I see his mom do a little bit of a double-take, then he runs over and just grabs on and starts hugging my leg as hard as he can, then he starts crying.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Once the initial excitement wears off and it's time to sit down to write, the authors are usually still very eager, but the reality of doing the work can be a little daunting.
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There is always room for coincidence.
