James Murphy Quotes
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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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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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Hong Kong girls have a genius sense of style. I came back to the States thinking no one here has any individuality. Or cute enough socks.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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I want people to fall in love with themselves and to be really proud and full of joy for the space they take up. If someone else appreciates the space you take up, then that's icing on the cake.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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When I get bored, I'll zone out, and I'll just sit in front of my computer and start writing any random song that comes to mind.
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Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat of the car. It came on the radio, and I kind of sang with it, and I got smacked In the mouth because that song was "evil."
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If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.
