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George Murray Quotes

I think the main influence has been living in New York City. Aside from all the crap around 9/11, I find it very demanding to think amid all the noise and visual pollution.

George Murray

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian

Topics

New York City Influence Think Find

Writing for 'Rooster' was a strange experience. It's funny, once you tap into a voice, words just start to flow. You know when you've hit a spirit or captured something.

Jez Butterworth

Funny Experience Words Writing Start

There's never been a game plan, and I suppose I've had an uneasy relationship with my ambition. Someone who had been in my year at drama school once said to me that I was terrifyingly ambitious back then. Which was not at all what I felt at the time - I felt paralysed with shyness, though that evaporated.

Jennifer Ehle

Relationship Time School Me Ambition

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

John Catsimatidis

Everyone Beliefs Traditions Greeks

Most people view coffee and lunch as personal time, not deal-making time. Unless the person you're meeting understands that this is a working lunch, then they may not even think that this is a serious business conversation.

Michael Gerber

Business Time Coffee People Lunch

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

Stockwell Day

Change Thinking Hands Long Changes

I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

Trombone Shorty

Music America New Know New Orleans

Nobody needs a chitlin.

Tony Rock

Nobody Needs

My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.

Miranda Cosgrove

Time Hero Guitar Play Never Clean

'Black Mirror,' I read that, and I had another offer for a movie at the same time that was a bigger movie, an actual film as opposed to TV, but I said, 'No, it has to be Black Mirror.' And it hadn't been sold to Netflix, hadn't gone abroad at that point - but it's just good work - that's all there is to it.

Domhnall Gleeson

Work Good Time Mirror Good Work

These are men and women who are willing to risk their lives in defense of their country. And the fact that their orientation - sexual orientation's been held against them is a blot on our nation's reputation.

Dick Durbin

Women Men Reputation Country Risk

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Dorothea Dix

Train Create Crime Petty Vice Many

If I have any complaints about my youth... one is that many well-meaning adults lied to me. Not spiteful lies with malicious intent but lies designed to prevent emotional and psychological pain - lies told by the people who cared about me most: my parents, teachers, relatives.

Chris Crutcher

Pain Parents People Me Youth Intent