Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
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If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.
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Seeing what you want from life from the inside out, rather than from the outside in, is the most important thing.
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In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.
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The right to privacy has both positive and negative connotations for those who consider themselves part of the natural law tradition.
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I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.
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I think that connection with humans is so important. Sometimes I'll do this monologue and talk to the crowd, like, 'Come on, let's really connect here.' I don't think a lot of people understand it's a two-way exchange. Some people go to a show and are like, 'Yeah, you make me feel.' That's not how it works.
