Eddie Murphy Quotes

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

Eddie Murphy

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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Ian Hart
- People
- Desire
- Play
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

Paloma Picasso
- Peace
- Proud
- Name
For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

Rain Phoenix
- Words
- Me
- Songwriting
When I was governor, I was looking for a way to unify our state. I realized music is about the only thing that unifies Tennessee.

Lamar Alexander
- Music
- Way
- Looking
The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.

Ferdinand Christian Baur
With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?

Felix Dennis
- People
- Book
- Free