Roisin Murphy Quotes

I was surrounded by music in my family, surrounded by people who sang songs - every single person I knew as a child growing up had one, two, three songs they knew from start to finish.

Roisin Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 5, 1973

Topics

FamilyMusicChildPeopleGrowing Up

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

Jennifer McMahon

StrangeGrandmotherSheExplainEven

We think that fear must be played out in fight, with military intervention, or in flight, via isolationism - but we are not hunted game, and those are not the only options. There is also the possibility of acceptance, with its corollary of understanding and its ultimate manifestation in embracing.

Andrew Solomon

FearAcceptanceFightGameThink

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

John Cleveland

HomeGodWanderHimBeenChanged

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell whether it's a black or a white person.

Johnnie Cochran

WalkBlackTalkingYouDownPerson

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Amy Lee

DreamsCrazyDreamSometimesMovies

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

TimeChampionTryingTalkWrite

We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.

Stewart Stern

FamilyFatherMotherGreatStyle

There are two qualities that I've noticed in good directors: One is that they have their vision very strongly in place; and two is that they listen to everyone's opinion and still remember their vision.

Rupert Friend

GoodVisionOpinionRememberPlace

I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as I've told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people.

David Talbot

RespectPeopleHimUpFeedSuck

I love music, and playing ukulele and singing makes me really happy.

Colleen Ballinger

LoveMusicHappyMeSingingPlaying

I didn't execute to a tee. But my coach always told me if I went out there and did my own thing, it's OK as long as I win.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

MeWinLongMy OwnCoachOut

Some age, others mature.

Sean Connery

AgeMatureOthersSome

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