James Murphy Quotes
It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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A fair question could be posed in this fashion: If people are not obeying existing laws, what makes us think they would obey any new laws?
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.
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Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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I know a lot of people who say they want to leave Tulsa and go off to L.A. or New York City. But I can't wait to come back to Tulsa. It's a great place to be.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
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Politics are not the task of a Christian.
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Five people read my work before its ready for publication, and I solicit opinions from all of them: my wife, my agent, my editor, and my parents.
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Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law
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It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.
