Róisín Murphy Quotes
I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
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Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
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Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.
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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
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I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.
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I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
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I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.
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Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
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My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Get every candidate to wear a NASCAR racing suit when they go debate; this way we can see how their sponsors really are.
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I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.
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To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
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I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.
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I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end of my junior year, I would have had enough credits to graduate from high school.
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It's hard to find things that haven't been said before or drawn before, but I'm trying.
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I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.
