Haruki Murakami Quotes
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
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I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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One of my favorite guys when I was young... I've always loved Bill Cosby. I've always wanted to direct him in something.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.
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When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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I schooled in Himachal Pradesh. I had taken up science and, initially, wanted to become a doctor. There are few career options for students of science though, so I shifted to Delhi and decided to try theater instead.
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Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do.
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We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.
