James Murphy Quotes
With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
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I think I really produce my best work in Iran.
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Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.
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My features are completely ethnic.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
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We want to continue the efforts against domestic violence and spread the drug courts, and develop real effective means of providing treatment for drug abusers without having to have them arrested.
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Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.
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You deserve to live. You deserve to be alive.
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One day, we were doing a serious scene and fast talking like we do and we could not stop laughing and the director had to stop the production. We had to go to our trailer and calm down and do it all again.
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With a computer, you have access to so many drum sounds and samples that your snare drum will be unrelated harmonically to your kick drum.
