James Murphy Quotes
Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.
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When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
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When I saw John Turturro in 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' I realized that was the kind of actor I wanted to be.
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Thus mating of females was strictly along the lines of paternal song.
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As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
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Warhol had resonance because it was high art and low art. And you could argue about it endlessly.
