Haruki Murakami Quotes

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

Haruki Murakami

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Trying
  • Popular
  • Belief

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I think who you are in school really sticks with you.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • School
  • Think
  • You

• A hard man is good to find.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Find

• Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Parents
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Learn
  • Movies

• The Qur'an, the universe, and humanity are three kinds of manifestations of one truth.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Humanity

• I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Why
  • Game

• I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate the meaning of the lyrics, and there's people there listening to that, and if they're moved by it, then I'm moved as well.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • People
  • Singing
  • Listening

• One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Up
  • Stop

• Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Personality

• African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Women
  • American
  • High

• America's military allow the rest of us to do what we do.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • America
  • Rest
  • Military

• I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.

  

  Cheryl Hines
  • People
  • Fun
  • Eyes

• In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • World
  • Great
  • Writing

• The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Book
  • Help
  • Wonder

• Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

  

  Elizabeth McCracken
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• The key for me is movement. When the ball comes into the box, or when the wide players get it, that's where I have to be clever and make my runs. That's where I come alive.

  

  Jermain Defoe
  • Clever

• This year the crop tends towards the personal, the particular and the recreational. This, the judges believe, points to a society considerably more at ease with itself...

  

  Alan Paton
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Judges

• Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Writing
  • Running
  • Manage