James Murphy Quotes
One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
James Murphy
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
Octavia Spencer
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber
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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.
Victor Cruz
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I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.
Ed Weeks
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
Edmond de Goncourt
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
Gary Johnson
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I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot.
Landon Donovan
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
Talcott Parsons
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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.
Carice van Houten
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile Selassie
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If you want to do a talk show on network television, you're probably going to wind up having a desk and a band, wearing a suit, and having a sidekick. Audiences want to feel comfortable.
Jimmy Kimmel
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I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.
D. T. Suzuki
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One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.
James Murphy
