James Murphy Quotes
For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I would like to direct.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.
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It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
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I find the business world hard.
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I like the enthusiasm but not the insincerity of Los Angeles.
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'Soft Matter' Nobel lecture (9 December 1991)
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For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.
