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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I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
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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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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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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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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. There is no other way to elude apathy, or escape discontent; none other to guard the temper from that quarrel with itself, which ultimately ends in quarreling with all mankind.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
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Как легко, доктор, быть философом на бумаге и как это трудно на деле!
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For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.
