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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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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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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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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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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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.
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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.
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I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.
