Haruki Murakami Quotes
This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
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We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.
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Like many popular best-sellers, he was a very sad and solemn man who took himself too seriously and his art not seriously enough.
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We know that enlightened capital didn't get rid of the slave trade.
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I'm a patriarch now. I've got to go get the bread.
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As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.
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I want to tell stories and make people feel good. That's when music is at its finest.
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The perfect shorts are always important.
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I don't have a tolerance for long meetings. I generally expect to get things over with quickly.
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I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.
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I love getting oxygen facials because I travel a lot. My skin gets pretty dry with all the airplanes.
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Pharmaceutical companies have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new HIV/AIDS treatments not out of altruism but because they can make up those research costs in sales.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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When I get to the movie set, I don't need to have a sort of iron fist that a movie is about me and my ideas. A lot of filmmakers don't have that benefit, so when they have their moment to let all that creativity out of them, it's all about them. It's their movie; it's their thing.
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Winning the World Cup was a dream come true after so many years of wanting something so bad. After that final whistle, I dropped to the ground on my knees and got emotional.
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I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.
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It can't be a mistake If I just call it change
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
