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 don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
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I think I've had an interesting life. I've done films, TV, theatre and got married. I don't have any regrets.
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There are two mistakes you can make in life,’ said Lucy. ‘The first is to think you’re special. The other is to think that you’re not.
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I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.
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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.
