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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People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood.
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It's a misogynistic world. It's because of what we ask of actresses. We ask them to be sensitive, fragile, desirable. And men? We ask them to be strong and virile.
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Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.
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I've had people come up to me after the show and say, 'Why did you not make fun of Pakistan?' People are actually upset you didn't talk about them.
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People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.
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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.
