Brittany Murphy Quotes
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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I think I was about 14 when I did my first makeup. I was like, 'Wow, I really like this what do you call it? Makeup thing?'
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I remember when I got into Juilliard - which was just crazy to me, that I would be studying at a school like that - the choice to cut all my hair off was really symbolic for me.
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I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
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If I'm brave, 99% of it comes from my mother.
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Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.
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My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
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My heart and soul is still music.
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Christianity, as it had played out over the past two millennia, meant power disguised as principle, guilt imposed on the susceptible, irrationality run amok, and the suppression of free inquiry. It meant hypocrisy and self-righteousness, dogmatism, and superstition. It meant monks flogging themselves and soldiers wearing crosses and the auto-da-fe of the Inquisition.
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I'm a dirt bag rock and roller. I want to represent that before anything else.
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I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.
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In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."
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The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.
