Haruki Murakami Quotes
A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
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…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.
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Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
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I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
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Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message
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I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.
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So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine.
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A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.
