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 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 was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
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People are suspicious of science. They see it as being responsible for problems like the degradation of our climate. There is also a strand in society that says physics is terribly hard.
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There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.
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Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me.
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Ever since wars have been fought, guys have been writing their stories.
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It's strangely energizing to have people who don't make music themselves take potshots at you from the Internet.
