James Murphy Quotes
I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
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Isolationism is over.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I love singers like Hayley Williams from Paramore and Amy Lee from Evanescence.
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And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.
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I've forbidden my daughter to have grandchildren, I'm too young.
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It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.
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When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we'd, like, 'wanna go against the norm, man.'
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I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.
