James Murphy Quotes
I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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The Cistercians do not eat meat... Yet they keep pigs to the number of many thousands, and sell the bacon - though perhaps not quite all of it. The heads, legs, and feet they neither give away, throw away, nor sell. What becomes of them God knows.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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On my show I share all these yummy, fattening recipes, but I tell people, in moderation, in moderation. You can have that little piece of pie.
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I'm a relatively optimistic kind of guy.
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Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.
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I'm not a big songwriter guy. People who are really good singer-songwriters usually left me kind of cold.
