James Murphy Quotes

If there was a direct influence on a song, I never hid it.

James Murphy

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I did some good stuff over in the U.K., but I wasn't consistently working. For a while there, I was going, 'Do I really want to do this - should I go back to university?'

Jesse Spencer

GoodBackGoWantOverUniversity

When I was a kid, I built miniatures, and that was actually the first thing I did professionally in the film industry. It was a demonstrable skill that I had, so I worked as a model maker.

John Knoll

SkillFirstKidIndustryFilmModel

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

Ann Patchett

FatherPoliceLos AngelesOfficer

To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.

Anand Mahindra

PeopleMeForgetKindLeapNever

I lost years of my life to prison because of two-dimensional and misogynist stereotypes.

Amanda Knox

LifePrisonMy LifeLostStereotypes

If we had a perfect world, we can do 'Scandal' during the day and 'Murder' at night - that's the optimal thing.

Tom Verica

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And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Robert Creeley

TimeExperiencePresentPlaceThree

Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.

Rupert Friend

ChangeMoneyPlayUnderstandNever

Young people know how important it is for dads to be involved in their lives. As I travel the country and talk with students, some of them tell me that their lives would be totally different if their father was around.

Arne Duncan

FatherTravelPeopleMeKnowYoung

Mind you, if a blockbuster movie was offered, I wouldn't say no. I can do accents - I don't always have to be Scottish.

Ashley Jensen

MindYouI CanSayAlwaysScottish

Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.

Aubrey Plaza

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I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

Allyson Felix

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