Joe Murray Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
-
When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
-
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
-
Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
-
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
-
I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
-
My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
-
For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
-
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
-
There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
-
Science is about unravelling nature.
-
I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
-
I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
-
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
-
I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
-
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
-
I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
-
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
-
It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
-
The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray.
-
If I couldn't have discipline, if I sit up eatin' fried chicken in bed at night, I'd just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.
-
Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.
