Eddie Murphy Quotes
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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I love the quality of TIDAL. I appreciate what they're trying to do and what they're trying to accomplish.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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The Reserve Bank cannot just exist; its ability to say 'no' has to be protected.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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Computers intimidate me.
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Call no man a foe, but never love a stranger.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
