Haruki Murakami Quotes
...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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Being a conservative in Hollywood is like walking into a shooting range with a bull's-eye attached to your body. There are more of us than you would believe, but if you want to keep working, you feel like you have to keep quiet.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.
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I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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When you have children love is always there in the best form.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them
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...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.
