Jim Murphy Quotes

When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.

Jim Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 25, 1947

Topics

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Gentlemen prefer bonds.

Andrew Mellon

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We need... to say to people that this is a temporary residential status, and we expect that, once there is peace in Syria again, once IS has been defeated in Iraq, that you go back to your home country with the knowledge that you have gained.

Angela Merkel

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I'm a writer and director, and I like to do that, but for some reason, it's become part of the industry and part of the job to go, 'Alright, let's talk about it!'

Jean-Marc Vallee

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I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

Jeff Lemire

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I always write back to people who are kind enough to write to me. Actually, I don't write - I recline on my red velvet sofa with my feet on the coffee table and dictate the letters to my eldest son.

Sue Townsend

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Whatever basic science resolves, at some stage it is of use to society. The problem is we do not know when or where.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

Mike Mills

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Many of my friends back in New York and elsewhere have a glib or dismissive attitude toward Los Angeles. It's a place of strip malls and traffic and not much else, in their opinion.

Moby

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In any solid, good relationship, it takes a while to trust someone.

Minka Kelly

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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

Djimon Hounsou

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I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

Winston Duke

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If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

William Lyon Phelps

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