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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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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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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I work, play and do everything in French.
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My mom quit her whole life and came to live with me in California.
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I wanted to be calm, like a mound with all its cities destroyed, and tranquil, like a full cemetery.
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Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.
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Computers will understand sarcasm before Americans do.
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Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
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Every trial lawyer knows what it is like to sit patiently while the other side puts on its case. Inevitably they make a few points that appeal to the jury, and waiting for the opportunity to respond can be painful. The desire to jump up immediately - to point out the flaws in logic or the factual distortions - is often overpowering.
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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.
