Donna Murphy Quotes
I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.
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I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process.
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One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've experienced, without actually writing about yourself. I've given many of my experiences and perceptions to many of the characters in the book, but none of them is me.
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I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied, where I've had to go on with no rehearsal.
