Haruki Murakami Quotes
Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
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I don't like having to be pushed into a box.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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What Spotify pays me is not even enough to pay the musicians playing with me or the people working on the discs. It's not working. Something is going to have to give.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.
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Fandom is amazing.
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I honestly do feel that I am a role model for young people.
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This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.
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I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.
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Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.
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We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.
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Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock.
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Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you actually exist. I look at my hands half expecting to see clear through them.
