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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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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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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Unfortunately, the higher you climb in social media, the more people will want to throw stones at you. But don't retaliate publicly.
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I feel kind of sorry for those kids who just play one sport growing up.
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There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
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I spend up to two hours a day on correspondence. Hearing from fans on the Internet and being able to directly respond to the fan base is exciting. You can cut out the middle man like the fan club... before a recent appearance in Tyler, Texas, I had fans reaching out on MySpace offering their lake house, Mavericks tickets. It was amazing.
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I don't have a TV, and I don't have a radio.
