James Murphy Quotes

In my experience, people looking for progress aren't actually looking to move things forward. They're looking to be perceived in a certain way: as a forward thinker. It's about vanity rather than any altruistic motives for the art.

James Murphy

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Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

Mattie Stepanek

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Heart's always been sort of like a cockroach. You can set off a bomb, and it'll still be alive underneath.

Ann Wilson

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For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.

Jeff Lemire

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There are 100,000 actors in the Screen Actors Guild. Only 2,000 of them make more than $75,000 a year.

Steve Guttenberg

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On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

Ron Rash

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My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.

Jason Day

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That's something that's really rare and special and what any actor would love - to have somebody that's specifically writing for you.

Jon Tenney

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My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there.

Brian Eno

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Remember: when you knock on the door of Opportunity, it is Work who answers!

Brendon Burchard

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You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.

Swara Bhaskar

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My parents are amazing, but when I was like, 'Well, I'm going to be an actress,' and they're all doctors, that wasn't the best and easiest thing to do. I'm sure that I probably went through a year period when I wasn't telling them exactly what I was doing. But that's going to evolve.

Reshma Shetty

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My family life is incredibly important to me. I want to be with them as much as I can. I try to work in New York, or I work in the summer time when my family can come with me.

Julianne Moore

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