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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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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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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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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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 know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
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How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
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… Nietzsche’s ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
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I thought my dad was a scientist when I was young. Seriously. Because people would come up to me, and they would be like, 'Your dad is the smartest person that I've ever met.' And I was so young, so I'd be like, 'Well he just put me on a time out, so I don't agree.'
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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.
