Haruki Murakami Quotes
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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Just because society, and government, and whatever was different 100 years ago, doesn't mean that people didn't have sex, pick their nose, or swear.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we sit down with our fans before every show and eat a gourmet meal that we made for them.
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I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
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When we signed our deal in 1974, we'd already been together for six years. When they lowered the drinking age in Ontario in 1971 to 18 years, we went from playing two or three high schools in a month to playing clubs two or three times a week.
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It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
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I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.
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My wife says that stage acting is like being on a tightrope with no net, and being in the movies, there is a net - because you stop and go over it again. It's very technical and mechanical. On stage you're on your own.
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In 1962, Popjak and I left the service of the Medical Research Council and became co-directors of the Milstead Laboratory of Chemical Enzymology set up by Shell Research Ltd.
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Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
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Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
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I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.
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“Just so you know, I'm straight. Totally straight. As an arrow." Her voice held a smile. "So am I”
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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.