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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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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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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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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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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Tenderness and rot tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn from this however. One is not two countries. One is not meat corrupting. It is important to stay sweet and loving.
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When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
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Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.
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I don't necessarily think veganism is going to save the world.
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I wanted to be great. And I loved Nashville, so that made it easy. I loved the music business. It made it easy for me to stay and make a life here.
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There is always room for coincidence.
