Katori Hall Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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A man notices a woman's figure when she walks in a room. Women have eight million words for blue; a man says dark blue or light blue.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Indeed, many of life's most fun and pleasurable choices come with potential dangers. It's important for my son to grow up recognizing that what might appear exciting or inviting at first glance could also have eventual negative consequences.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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The thing I like to do most is shop.
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Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
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That which you think today becomes that which you are tomorrow.
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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.
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The distance between the people who made the games and the people playing them wasn't that big. It was the spirit of independence. The programmers were a lot like you.
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Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment.
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Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.
