Natsuki Takaya Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
-
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
-
I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
-
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
-
If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
-
I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
-
But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
-
What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
-
Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
-
One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
-
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
-
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
-
I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
-
'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
-
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
-
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
-
Attaching yourself to success and failure too much is not healthy and good for you. It is better to focus your energy in reinventing yourself as an actor with every film.
-
I think when you've been in office for a long time, you have a record, and that record is fair game.
-
Internet porn makes everything more reasonable -- once you've realized there is a massive subculture of upwardly mobile people who think it's erotic to see an Asian woman giving a hand job to a javelina, nothing else in the world seems crazy.
-
Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house...
