Róisín Murphy Quotes
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time.
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I hate dentists. That's why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn't go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.
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I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
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The big thing in my family growing up is that everybody had to play a musical instrument. We were like the von Trapps.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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First thing I did when I found out I made it into the top 13 is I tried not to faint and you know, I took it all in and I really looked at the crowd and said a big 'thank you'.
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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
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To be sure, ASPM isn't the gene responsible for building big brains - there's no such single gene. But it's critical to the process, and the primate line has almost certainly benefited from distinct changes in ASPM.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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I had strong legs that would have made me a good sumo wrestler and I used that to my advantage, but my home runs were achieved by technique.
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I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.
