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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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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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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'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
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I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
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I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
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I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
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If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.
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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.
