Haruki Murakami Quotes
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
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What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without substantial musical ideas. Without that as a foundation, you can add all the layers of sound you want - it's still going to sound like a mess.
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After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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The magazine, the daytime show, we've always tried to write affordable, accessible. Those are key words for us, and I do mean us, a huge staff of people at the magazine who love to cook affordable, friendly food that helps families eat better for less.
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It's so inspiring to be around other people who have ideas you haven't thought of, and all of a sudden you're like, 'Wow! That's so amazing!' I definitely want everything I do to just get better and better.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There's a shoe box in my closet filled with these notebooks, each riddled with notes and impressions, ideas, schemes, and soup recipes.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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Words are all we have.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.
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Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.
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I like acting with no lines because all of a sudden you're able to express things without always worrying about the text. It's great to have a great text, but there's a lot of stuff you can't say in words, and I think there's something really nice about good physical moments.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.
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We try to preach innovation. We provide resources; we invite speakers in from universities to talk about new ideas.
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India is a country of empty words, not action. Only repeating, 'Mera Bharat Mahaan' won't help. Learn to finish the race first in order to finish first.
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Genghis nodded drunkenly. "Writing," he replied, scornfully. "It traps words." "It makes them real, lord. It makes them last".
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One unexpectedly striking moment, when Tom Amandes as Lincoln, recites the Gettysburg Address, not in booming, this-is-a-great-speech style, but casually, as if chatting over dinner. The approach elevates the words.
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Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
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You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.
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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
