Haruki Murakami Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.
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My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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I like black because it is a vacant space.
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Human reason is by nature architectonic.
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'What remains?' cried Ivanhoe; 'Glory, maiden, glory! which gilds our sepulchre and embalms our name.'
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But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment.
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And a moment later there was a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and the relative had crossed the threshold at fifty m.p.h. under her own steam.
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Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!With baskets.
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I bought my parents a house. Then I bought myself a Rolex. My brother forced me to do it, but I'm glad he did.
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical.
