Roisin Murphy Quotes

When I go home, I go to my house in the countryside. I don't hang out in Dublin. I go home to be with my family and have a rest and so on. I don't know anything about the Irish music scene, and I've never felt part of it.

Roisin Murphy

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

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I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

John Cheever

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It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

John Mayer

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I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Robert Rinder

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The first song that I had that went platinum was 'Keep Your Head Up,' which was a long time ago. Then, you get 'one-hit wonder' with that.

Andy Grammer

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The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

Stephen Graham Jones

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There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Steven T. Katz

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Christianity is why the 'Duck Dynasty' family is still together.

Si Robertson

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Sometimes, when we're very, very still, we're more aware of movement than when we make a lot of movement outwardly.

Robert Wilson

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I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

Jonathan LaPaglia

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Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

Jonathan Mostow

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John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.

Jonathan Galassi

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