Haruki Murakami Quotes
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I'm not sexist, I'm just a realist.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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Ask me who I don't dress!
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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Nobody at CNBC owns gold. Nobody at Bloomberg owns gold. Gold is being constantly talked down by the media, and Fed officials, and economists, who also don't own any gold. They're all stocked up in equities.
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I had bulimia for a few years. I was really sick. I don't know that person; I can't believe that was me.
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So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe.
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People always think I was just playing in a piano bar, but I only did that for about six months. The rest of the time I was playing in bands.
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I'm happiest when I'm discussing a script and working with interesting people.
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It's not easy for a film to tell a story of the experiences of an entire society. However, from an individual's perspective, it is possible to tell one aspect of an entire society's story.
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I want to talk about jobs, the economy, foreclosures. I want to talk about energy prices.
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People in general are used to seeing me as the naughty girl because that's what they've always cast me as.
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Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.
