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The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.


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RUPERT MURDOCH From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they w...
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RUPERT COLVILLE There has been no outcry,
RUPERT MURDOCH There has been no outcry, I've had hundreds of phone calls, there has been one call about the poison...
RUPERT MURDOCH The earthquakes in people's heads, half the city's population was cracked, a rabble of doom-merchant...
RUPERT THOMSON Should Yahoo have betrayed a source like that? ... I think they were wrong.
RUPERT MURDOCH Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the custome...
RUPERT MURDOCH It will happen either in the last part of the year or the first month of next year,
RUPERT MURDOCH It has the fastest growing audience. More importantly, broadband proliferation is at last real, mean...
RUPERT MURDOCH Hopefully we will continue to improve our profits and improve our dividend.
RUPERT MURDOCH Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build somet...
RUPERT MURDOCH So to those of you who are wondering what our spending limit will be, my answer is this: We have a l...
RUPERT MURDOCH I don't think we set that figure in concrete,
RUPERT MURDOCH This is a time of fundamental change.
RUPERT MURDOCH We see opportunities to participate in media developments across Europe.
RUPERT MURDOCH This is a strategic move to further strengthen our book publishing business.
RUPERT MURDOCH These shares don't carry rights and requirements. On the other hand, John's a friend and always woul...
RUPERT MURDOCH The global media is on the internet,
RUPERT MURDOCH without paying the proper premium.
RUPERT MURDOCH sticky, fun and poised to be profitable.
RUPERT MURDOCH For the second consecutive quarter, all of our primary content businesses, with the exception of fil...
RUPERT MURDOCH I think we've got to do a better job at answering it. And there's a big job to do. But you're not go...
RUPERT MURDOCH was committed solely to relaying the events fully, accurately and impartially.
RUPERT MURDOCH We are 99 percent there.
RUPERT MURDOCH Israel in the World
RUPERT MURDOCH safeguard national culture.
RUPERT MURDOCH It wasn't Gavin we were worried about but Charlotte. She was refusing to appear on MTV.
RUPERT MURDOCH I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four...
RUPERT GRINT Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the...
RUPERT GRINT Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.
RUPERT GRINT It was really weird but also so much fun. I had such a brilliant time on the set.
RUPERT GRINT Every time I come off-set, I am just like a normal kid again.
RUPERT GRINT But we knew the characters pretty well because we were all big fans of the books.
RUPERT GRINT My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.
RUPERT GRINT Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it.
RUPERT GRINT It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going t...
RUPERT GRINT Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,
RUPERT GRINT I'm learning to drive at the moment, so that's taking all my time.
RUPERT GRINT We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.
RUPERT GRINT