Iris Murdoch Quotes
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
Quotes to Explore
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Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I deferred my third-year studies from university to go full time sailing to try and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics, which I did. I tried to go back to the university, but having won the silver medal, I just haven't been able to get back. And now I'm not sure if I ever will.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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The frustrating part of being an artist is that I can do a whole interview, and all most people are going to see is the headlines. As artists, we should be able to write our own headlines.
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..it was with the utmost reluctance that I found the figure could not serve my purposes.. .But a time came when none of us could use the figure without mutilating it. his quote in 1959, looking back to the 1930's
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… I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
