Haruki Murakami Quotes
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.
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My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
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I consider myself Istanbul's storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city's clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.
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I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
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The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.
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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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James Baldwin is probably the biggest influence on me from a literary perspective.
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We are youngAnd we are friends of time.
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Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.
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I do not want to play a character who is exactly like me.
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Sometimes not playing music for a day is much more beneficial than playing every day for ten hours.
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I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.
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I have the most beautiful souls in my life supporting me and helping me to follow my dreams. I love them more than I can ever express in words.
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All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
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I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.
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I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.
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People are always going to go shopping. A lot of our effort is just: 'How do we make the retail experience a great one?'
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Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
