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.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Over
  • Isolationism

• 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.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Dream
  • Woman
  • Matter

• 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.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Storm
  • News
  • Complexity

• I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.

  

  Yaya DaCosta
  • Home
  • Places
  • African-American

• 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.

  

  Inga Cadranel
  • Sports
  • Car
  • Sexy

• 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • People
  • Long
  • True

• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • War
  • Never

• There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Difference
  • Victim
  • Bully

• It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Life
  • School
  • Desk

• People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Religion
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Different
  • Art

• Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Strong
  • You
  • Sometimes

• 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.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • School
  • Kids
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Used
  • Remedies
  • Middle Ages

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Personality

• I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

  

  Chelsea Clinton
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Friends

• I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • Up
  • Alone

• I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • People
  • Community
  • Bridge

• I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

  

  Anna Paquin
  • People
  • Long
  • Trying

• Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

  

  Dean Inge
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Profound

• I was a singing guitar player as a kid, and I found it really embarrassing, so I stopped singing and became a drummer.

  

  James Murphy
  • Player
  • Singing