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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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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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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When a song came on the radio that I wanted to learn, my mother would quickly write down the lyrics for me. Soon after, I would be singing it.
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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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Feeling I'd scarcely arrived at a style, I now find I'm near the end of it. I'm not quite sure what Late Style means except that it's some sort of licence, a permit for ageing practitioners to kick their heels up.
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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.
