Haruki Murakami Quotes
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
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The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
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I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
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The A-PAC region is so important, mainly because it is growing much faster than the global average.
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We could have a political movement going if it had been properly organized but the Monarchy's done itself enormous damage possibly beyond the point of long-term recovery.
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I knew right away that it was a gorgeous idea.
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It's really hard to sell a script, and it's even harder to get a movie made. It just almost never happens.
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I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
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Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.
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I promised myself I wouldn't work again until I found something that excited me.
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It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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Do what you think is interesting, do something that you think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise you won't do it well anyway.
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
