James Murphy Quotes

I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

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• It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

  

  Ed Wood
  • Movie
  • Monster
  • Supernatural

• I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Women
  • Children
  • War

• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Long
  • House
  • Success

• It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Done
  • Journey
  • Stupid

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Time
  • Thought
  • Stupid

• All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Focus
  • Best
  • Story

• When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • People
  • Me
  • Appreciation

• I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Experience
  • America
  • Interesting

• The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Father

• I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Range

• I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Home
  • Girl

• I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Think
  • Body

• I still don't get golf.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Golf
  • Get
  • Still

• Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Daily
  • Will
  • Computers

• I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Good
  • Architecture

• I don't work out as much as I should, but I do believe that it's a healthy mind as well as a healthy body that keeps me fit, sound and calm.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I know of people who don't believe it, but depression is an illness, but unlike, say, a broken leg, you don't know when it'll get better.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Broken

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • God
  • Power
  • Judges

• Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love
  • Hate
  • For Her

• I never did albums fully at DFA; I always would go someplace else so I wasn't making a record in my office, basically.

  

  James Murphy