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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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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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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Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.
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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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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.
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Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
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I think that my main business is as a news person.
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A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.
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I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.
