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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I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.
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So much of politics is about the daily grind of political business: the people to see, the myriad different facets of government, the remorseless agenda of this part of the media or that.
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And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
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The Appropriations Committee in the Senate is out of control, out of control on spending.
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I've been making sushi for 38 years, and I'm still learning. You have to consider the size and color of the ingredients, how much salt and vinegar to use and how the seasons affect the fattiness of the fish.
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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.
