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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Our strategy should be based on indigenisation and import substitution. The government must provide opportunities for domestic companies to participate in sectors in which the country continues to depend on imports.
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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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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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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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As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
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Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
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I didn't want that 15 minutes of fame moment like, 'Oh, she said she was gay.'
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There is always room for coincidence.
