Joe Murray Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.
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I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action.
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Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.
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Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, really? Me?
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Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of a tortoise and turn him loose in a peat bog.
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Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.
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Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.
