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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I did 'Celebrity' by Woody Allen. I did 'The Gingerbread Man' with Robert Altman. These were big talents.
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Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.
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Babies are a nuisance, of course. But so does everything seem to be that is worth while – husbands and books and committees and being loved and everything. We have to choose between barren ease and rich unrest – or rather, one does not choose.
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When you've played two sets against the girl, you kind of know her game, and by the third set I was really comfortable.
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It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
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I think I would want to make toys. Maybe it's that thing about trying to be a kid forever.
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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.
