Lionel Murphy Quotes
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is a deformed idiot.
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I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.
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Sure, being a reservist wasn't as glamorous, but I was the one who had to look at myself in the mirror.
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I like rock music because it's always sonically fascinating. There's never a method to what it needs to sound like. It's just however that instrument comes out that day, whatever the humidity level was in the air, what studio you were at. All that makes that tone that you can't re-create, so each song is like a person.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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An EMP explosion would wipe out our grid, wipe out our cellular system.
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It is difficult to survive as an author in Sweden, so for commercial success, it is good idea to write crime, get yourself translated, and live happily ever after.
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When we stop running up huge budget deficits and start acting responsibly in Washington, we will provide small-business owners with the certainty they need to put Americans back to work.
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I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.
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I am a very thorough person.
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When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
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God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.
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I get the best inspiration or the most creativity from real emotions.
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.
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I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.
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Just losing a couple pounds takes so much stress off your joints. Your body feels better.
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
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There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
