Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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No man may make another free.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.
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Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
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Ultimately, I love making music more than anything. And I want to do that for ever. I don't want be on the top. I just want to keep doing what I'm doing.
