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James Murphy Quotes

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 4, 1970

Topics

Failure Personality Strengths Those

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Passion Mind Die Yesterday Young

Inaugural speeches are supposed to be huge and stirring. Presidents haul our heroes onstage, from George Washington to Martin Luther King Jr. George W. Bush brought the Liberty Bell. They use history to make greatness and achievements seem like something you can just take down from the shelf.

History Greatness King You Down

Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.

Body Legislative Take Actions Purest

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

Education Learning School High School

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

Child Me Mom World Reality You

I think one of the things about listening is that it's always at its most powerful when it's present, when it's right here, when it's right now. And that's a lesson about improv that I think just made me a much more social person.

Me Listening Think Present Powerful

It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

Courtney B. Vance

Me Reading End Done Up Natural

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

Party Republican Would Knew Package

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

Work You Know Never Going Working

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

Wynton Marsalis

Step People Generation Risk Line

Directors tend to be more underrated than overrated because it's a quiet job and people don't really understand it.

Job People Quiet Understand More

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Looking My Own Over Out Own Saw

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