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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When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.'
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Strong racial pride always entails intense awareness of an inferior other. For the North Koreans, foreigners are inferior - even the friendly ones.
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It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
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David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.
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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.
