Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
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It's one thing if you write a song and somebody else sings it because you give the OK. But if your voice is on something and you don't get the credit, it's kind of hard.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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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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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
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This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.
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Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.
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I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
