Paolo Nutini Quotes

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

Paolo Nutini

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I do believe that a poet would possess a stronger intuitive sense of phrasing with a rock song. There is a way to tap into the emotions of an audience simply by the cross of a certain phrase, even a single word, against a certain chord.

Jim Carroll

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You should never ask a horse or an actor to do something they cannot do. Wisdom will teach you to find out what they can do and then make it easy for them.

Tommy Lee Jones

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I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.

Riz Ahmed

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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Michelangelo

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I wound up getting my degree in sports medicine and nutrition because I wanted to work in the medical field. But I wound up taking a trip to Los Angeles and decided being an actor sounds pretty cool, too.

Derek Theler

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I'm a trudger.

Debra Granik

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I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

Christopher Moore

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The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Thomas Hobbes

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It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't like to find stuff I do like.

Mark Hoppus

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In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.

Marion Cotillard

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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

Jane Fonda

WisdomYouGoKnowingNeedPart

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

Jamie Farr

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