Róisín Murphy Quotes

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

Róisín Murphy

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• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• 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.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Ideas
  • Sound
  • Differences

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Time
  • Same
  • Hat

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• 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.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Now

• Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Style
  • Look
  • Shaving

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Political
  • Child
  • Slavery

• Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Yourself

• I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• 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.'

  

  Anthony Jeselnik

• I'm not giving the president a blank check, period.

  

  Jim McDermott
  • Giving
  • Period

• Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Why
  • Funny

• I work, play and do everything in French.

  

  Philippe Falardeau
  • Work

• My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Life
  • Live
  • Mom

• I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

  

  Jane Campion

• Always enjoy the ride, because you don't know where it's going, but it's going to be all right.

  

  Kimberly Williams-Paisley

• There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

  

  Cliff Richard
  • Life
  • Jesus

• It's the new slavery. It came out of the drug laws and it really is something we're going to have to confront, but I don't see enough people up in arms about that. We need to be.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Up
  • Drug

• One of the things, one of the things that really got to me was the thing in Houston where you had the government, the mayor actually, trying to get the sermons of ministers. When the government tries to invade the church to enforce its own opinion on marriage, that's when it's time to resist.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Government

• I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

  

  Róisín Murphy
  • Trying
  • Connected
  • Bloody