Haruki Murakami Quotes
I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of the time, when I watch actors now, I think, 'I don't believe you.'
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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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Federal law should hold organizations like the League of Women Voters harmless if they make good-faith mistakes while registering people.
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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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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, 'What happened next?'
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Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
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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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in darkness and in hedges
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All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
