Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

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• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Soul
  • Language
  • Thoughts

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Family
  • She

• There's been a couple of guys who have gotten me. I used to say Adrian Gonzalez. He's a good lefty hitter; he's hit a few home runs off of me. They were a couple of mistakes, so if you make your pitches, you're more likely to have a better outcome.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Home
  • Couple

• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
  • Business
  • Lesson

• I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Why
  • Lost
  • Sometimes

• My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Favorite
  • Were
  • Anne

• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Always
  • Better

• I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Done
  • Think
  • Night

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Notes
  • Pure
  • Anywhere

• I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Life
  • Always
  • Explore

• Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Thought

• Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Act
  • Many
  • Forming

• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Better

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • People
  • Money
  • Dress

• There is an instinctive understanding that the cultural, social and political development of a nation is a dynamic process which has to be given purpose and direction by drawing on tradition as well as by experiment, innovation and a willingness to evaluate both old and new ideas objectively.

  

  Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Understanding

• For millennials, conducting business with a purpose that goes beyond making profits is critically important in determining the kind of company they want to work for - and the kind of company with whom they are willing to do business.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Work
  • Important
  • Business

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Weak
  • Midnight
  • Weary

• I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Purpose