Alva Noto Quotes
The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
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'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.
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My father was a factory worker, and we were really poor. But everything I earned peddling papers and working in stores, he made me put aside for education.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.
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One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.
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I have the little idea, my friend, that this is a crime very carefully planned and staged. It is a far-sighted, long-headed crime. It is not - how shall I express it? - a Latin crime. It is a crime that shows traces of a cool, resourceful, deliberate brain - I think an Anglo-Saxon brain.
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We have achieved tremendous success in Ireland and internationally on the strength of our creativity and design skills.
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The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?
