Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
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I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Democracy is not about one party dominating.
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren't watching one of three movies - 'Caddyshack,' 'Animal House,' 'Beverly Hills Cop' - on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching 'Sesame Street': these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
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I'm not against gay people.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.
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I find a lot of really hot people to be extremely boring because they haven't had to work at it.
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To me the task is a loathsome one. I go in the spirit of the soldier who acts against his best judgment at the orders of his superior.
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With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike.
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The conclusion I came to was that even if I couldn't sell books, I still liked the process of writing.
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You know my girls are so funny. You're out in the country and there are critters everywhere and they get a little like, 'Oh my God! Oh no, bugs!' and I had to say, 'Honey this is fine. This is their world and it's all part of being in the country.' I realized, 'Oh my God, my girls are really city girls.'
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I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.
