Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.
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Sure, men like a challenge - but so do women. And nobody likes to be challenged all the time. I know plenty of long-standing happy couples who slept together right away, spent hours yakking on the phone, split checks down the middle, and lived together for years before the wedding.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
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We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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I think what I've learned to focus on is my music, and that's why I made my record independently.
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I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.
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An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
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I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.
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A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
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I second guess everything I do musically, and I often could spend hours on, say, one snare sound.
