James Murphy Quotes
I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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The stars that have most glory have no rest.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.
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Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
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p. 63
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Conscience is the guardian in the individual of the rules which the community has evolved for its own preservation.
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Who am I? What am I? Why am I?
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only I thought I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
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In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
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I have an interest in everything, but I don't have an interest in starting new careers.
