James Murphy Quotes
I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'
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I'm completely in love with the world but also terrified of it. It creates some overwhelming feelings. Wanting to battle out that joy and fear is part of my music.
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I had a long, long time to make 'Rubberband,' and I originally thought that that record would last two years. Once I got over realizing that that's not gonna happen, and sort of got my perspective back, I realized, 'Man I'm really fortunate. I get to write music, make music for a living.'
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I'm an underdog by nature, and I like to be fighting. I don't make music for myself. I make music to fight.
