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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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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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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Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Solovyov or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth.
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I think every directing team works differently in the same manner that every director works differently. Everybody has a different personality and a different way of working, and that somehow evolves in the process.
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The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.
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It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.
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Gossip is irresponsible communication. Irresponsible because it is at the expense of another person who is not there to defend herself. Irresponsible because it is not constructive: it helps no one, least of all the person being gossiped about.
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This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.
