Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I want to play interesting women.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I think the only time I show my emotions and anger is on the cricket field; otherwise, I've mellowed down. And with age, I think, with age you always end up mellowing down.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.
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There are no great scripts - just great films.
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Being God would be the ultimate.
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10) Anarchy is the least stable of social structures.
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Prison kills your spirit, straight up. It kills your spirit. There is no creativity, there's none of that.
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I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
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Deadlines are great for customers because having one means they get a product, not just a promise that someday they'll get a product.
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The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.
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I don't eschew autobiographical writing, but I'm not interested in mine to be so straightforward. The things that tend to move me the most are often those that I have to figure out its meaning for myself. The human being's ability to make a metaphor to describe a human experience is just really cool.
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K.C. and the Bay Area are opposites.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account.
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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.
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You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.
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I actually think that the economy has got some positives. It's got the market. It's got consumer confidence and it's got banks throwing - I mean central bankers throwing money at it around the world.
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You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
