Haruki Murakami Quotes
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments with the ultra-Orthodox factions.
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In middle school, you're figuring out how you're affecting people, and sometimes you're affecting people negatively. And what sucks is that it can affect people for their whole lives. I didn't realize I was a part of that.
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I wouldn't ask other people to invest in my race if I wasn't willing to invest in it myself.
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It's definitely fun when you're able to translate your practice into the game. It's fun, and you know that your hard work paid off.
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I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.
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My husband is leaving me. No dramas, no slammed doors - well, OK, a few slammed doors - and no suitcase in the hall, but there is another woman involved. Her name is Dementia.
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Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.
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A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak.
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An idea is like a play. It needs a good producer and a good promoter even if it is a masterpiece. Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for a lack of an audience, close after a week. Similarly, an idea will not move from the fringes to the mainstream simply because it is good; it must be skillfully marketed before it will actually shift people's perceptions and behavior.
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Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you can’t even say a word. Should be tons of fun.” Shane almost choked, and gave Michael a sideways glare. Michael sent him a hundred-watt smile in return—no fangs, which was probably for the best.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I wish we didn't have to tell this story.
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As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.
