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 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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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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I don't think of myself as a small receiver, but you can't control what somebody says about you. It hasn't held me back - actually, I think I've changed the perception of smaller receivers.
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There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.
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Every year, millions of people from Iran and Iraq travel to each other's countries, and we also have marriages between Iraqis and Iranians. Many Iranians were born in Iraq, and many Iraqis were born in Iran. This is a kind of special, cordial amicable ties.
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I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.
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There’s a long pause. But it’s not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I’m the treasure from the high shelf that someone’s just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don’t mind being looked at like this. I don’t mind it at all.
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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.
