James Murphy Quotes
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My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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I'm quite a slow reader. It can take me quite a while to get though a book.
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I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess.
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The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
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When I started stand-up, the first thing I did was to take an improv class.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
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In any triangle the centre of gravity lies on the straight line joining any angle to the middle point of the opposite side.
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
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Eneke the bird was asked why he was always on the wing and he replied: 'Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.'
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I feel that the thing about film and particularly about TV, actually, is it's being created now. We're living in the best time so far because there are many more women writing and women directing, women producing, and people are finally catching on to the fact that women want to go and buy tickets to see female characters and more than one in a film. So I actually think it's a very fertile time to be a woman over 40.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
