Haruki Murakami Quotes
Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.
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I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.
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My dad was more tensed than I was a day before the release. Having learned that 'Bruce Lee' has released to the highest openings in my career, he has settled down.
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.
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Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.
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I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
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When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.
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I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career!
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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
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The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.
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Having a career is a bit like navigating an Atlantic crossing - you have to make sure everything is keeping and is balanced.
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I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
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I really enjoy making dinner for my kids and my husband - chopping ginger and marinating the tofu.
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What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed... but on cooperation... where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.
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I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.
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For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
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Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.
