Haruki Murakami Quotes
There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I often use the word 'magical' to talk about what it feels like on set.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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I concentrate on making everything strong, and you can't do that with just cardio. I strength-train one day - and I'm not talking heavy weights, just a little. I see my trainer one day, next day I take a yoga class or cook. I'm not someone who just opens a pantry and rustles something up.
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To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.
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I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.
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I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.
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My goal's always to connect and relate to my audience. I want them to leave my show feeling like they got to know me better - not only that, but like we could be friends. I want people to leave going, 'Oh my gosh, I could totally hang out with her!'
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.
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People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
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There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.
