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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I am lucky to say now that it is not frightening for me, living in L.A., to be gay. Even when I was in Texas, I wasn't afraid. I was kind of out in high school. I just could never decide on what label. I am glad that I am public about it, and I think I should be.
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.
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Qui frumentum necessariaque non praeparat, uincitur sine ferro.
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It was a wonderful thing to see the guys again.
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There is always room for coincidence.
