Haruki Murakami Quotes
This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.
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Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
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I often find myself going back to Darwin's saying about the duration of a man's friendships being one of the best measures of his worth.
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It's simple: either you have discipline or you haven't.
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This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.