James Murphy Quotes
When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.
Quotes to Explore
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The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
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Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different... and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person... there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Cut off the head of the snake
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But, scarce observ'd, the knowing and the boldFall in the gen'ral massacre of gold.
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There is in this world no real delight (excepting those of sensuality), but exchange of ideas in conversation.
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Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.
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Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
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I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.
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I hear it's better to use animal products than synthetics, which are harmful to humans and the earth... but destroying one segment of the creation to allegedly save another is the idea of fools!!!
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Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.
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It is that dream we carry that something miraculous will happen that it must happen - that time will open that the heart will open that doors will open and that the rock face will open that springs will gush forth - that the dream will open and that one morning we'll glide in to a harbour we didn't know was there.
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When I do a remix, I try to think about what I don't have in my bag and create something to fill that gap.
