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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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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If you wanted to make a film about British teenagers, it would be... well, it wouldn't interest me; let's put it like that. They'd be listening to music I hate, watching TV all the time, and talking about 'Big Brother.'
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
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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.
