Haruki Murakami Quotes
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
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The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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There are trends in our societies... that can lead to some political decisions in America and in Europe that can give some ground to the radicalization discourse.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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I couldn't possibly lead the kind of life I lead, and keep the schedule that I do, having radiation or chemotherapy.
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I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.
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Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.
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I'm happy to have the opportunity to record the records I want to - I'm very aware that that's a privilege.
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Among my books, the ones that sell best are for readers between the ages of 8 and 12. According to a study by the Association of American Publishers, the largest area of industry growth in 2014 was in the children and young adult category.
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
