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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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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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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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.
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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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For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
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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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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
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I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
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I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.
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There's something about the girls and the boys who just live for the moment and don't think a second beyond their needs and the here and now that, ultimately, is pretty tragic.
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Till the time I found a creative outlet, I was trying to be extra creative at business, which would always put me in a situation of conflict with other stakeholders. The moment I started writing, my creative impulses were finally channelised.
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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.
