Liz Murray Quotes
The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have a great office.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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I'm going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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I had a pregnancy that wasn't private... A lot of people had their opinions about it. They were surprised that I came up pregnant, which was a surprise to me, because I'm a woman, and women get pregnant, and Lauren comes first before the actress, so having my son was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.
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Gray goes with gold. Gray goes with all colors. I've done gray-and-red paintings, and gray and orange go so well together. It takes a long time to make gray because gray has a little bit of color in it.
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To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.
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The lesson that people can't give me what they don't have, and if there's anything I took from it, it was: okay, I don't really expect anyone to hand me anything. There's going to be me and the world.
