Haruki Murakami Quotes
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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The world is always terrible.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski -
I would go to cosmetics counters and buy two or three foundations and powders, and then go home and mix them before I came up with something suitable for my undertones.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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There is too much negativity on Twitter, and I want to stay from it. I don't have anything intelligent to say. Whatever I want to say, I will say it through my movies and interviews.
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I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.
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How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
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More people saw me in 'Love Actually' than had seen me in everything else I had ever done up to that point.
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When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
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I think I have been very conscious throughout my career. I can't go back and remember every line of every ad I have done, but I think in the most part I have been pretty conscious that we are not making a wrong claim. I am pretty confident with everything I do.
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I thought Oasis were great.
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My idols are all older.
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When my works are being translated, I always get this question from my translators: Up or down? Which means, should it sound biblical and highbrow, or should we take it all down to sound colloquial? In Hebrew, it's both all the time. People in Israel would write in a high register, they wouldn't write colloquial speech. I do a special take on colloquial speech.
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
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Our message of the day is service does not need a title.
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A lot of people have been quite surprised with the stuff that I'm doing on my own, which shocks me because I've always known what I wanted to do. But people have only seen me with the Spice Girls, so I suppose it's not that surprising.
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I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
