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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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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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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More money means litigating, more player-hating. Got a cell at the pen, for me waiting. Is this my fate?
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Manhood is what we profess, and what we try to get across.
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We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
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I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you're talking about greed.
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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.
