Carolyn Murphy Quotes
I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
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For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
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It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve - not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country - those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy - the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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If I were a young man today, I might be lured into the moviemaking industry. You can really make a statement there.
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The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.
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I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.
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Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I grew up surfing. My dad probably put me on a surfboard before I could walk.
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I'm not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I'm always wearing a hat and sunblock.
