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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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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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 nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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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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In high school, I felt pressure to fit in with groups and with people who didn't actually want to be my friend. That's something I learned moving forward into adulthood: to keep the people around me people who love me for exactly who I am.
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I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.
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Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
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Ok, here goes: I'm going to see how many people I can offend by suggesting that maybe many little gay boys, like many little girls, are made up of sugar and spice and everything nice.
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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.
