Roisin Murphy Quotes

I collect words and phrases and cut things out of newspapers and keep scrapbooks and write down ideas in my phone or 10,000 notebooks all around my house. It's not very organised, but I keep collecting, so I did have a lot of material to help me to write songs.

Roisin Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I walk fast. I have an aversion to wasting time. My sense of constant motion is one of the reasons that my eldest daughter, Amy, nicknamed me 'the Tasmanian Devil' when she was in her teens.

Jim Webb

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Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Andrew Mellon

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The relative lack of power of certain minority groups, and the fear they're feeling in the wake of Donald Trump's election, is something I think we really need to take a look at.

Megyn Kelly

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It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless on the economy. I mean, he doesn't quite know what to do. It's a wake-up on Monday and try to figure it out. It takes time to turn a supertanker, so you need to know where you need to go.

John Kasich

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We have tacos and burritos and things that sound Mexican. But to me, it's about great-tasting food in an atmosphere sympathetic to the food, prepared freshly and served to the customer in a way that's customizable.

Steve Ells

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Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

Rollo May

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I lost my front tooth in rugby league when a fat guy from Bellevue Hill kicked me in the face as I got up from a tackle to mark him. I made this decision not to cap the tooth because I thought it was false. But I didn't make any movies as a teenager, and I had a very hard time with girls and stuff.

Russell Crowe

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I watched a lot of silent movies. It's a very specific way of writing, which is more of a challenge than the directing. You have to describe images. It's easier to shoot them.

Michel Hazanavicius

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George Benson conquered many different genres, from pop ballads to R&B to jazz.

Little Louie Vega

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Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.

Christopher Buckley

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When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read a specific book for a specific book, but usually I'm trying to increase my general understanding.

Brandon Sanderson

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How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James

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