Haruki Murakami Quotes
If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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I have quite a foul mouth.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
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I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time.
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What musicals need is a new me.
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
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There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
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Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.
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That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.
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We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.
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If I'm going to merely ramble, maybe I should just snuggle under the warm covers, think of Miu, and play with myself.
