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.

Haruki Murakami

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• Feels
• Wait

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• Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.

  

  Jacky Ickx
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  • Far
  • Magnificent

• The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.

  

  Caitlin Moran
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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.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
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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.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • Look
  • Embrace
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• The game of basketball is one thing, but the image of the game is another thing.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Game
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• I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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  • Unhappy

• 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.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Care

• Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Politics

• The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hate

• 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.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Trust
  • Go For It

• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Pretty
  • Choice
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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.

  

  Action Bronson
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• No, I'm not coaching. It's a huge responsibility to coach somebody.

  

  Oksana Baiul
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• Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Me
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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Understand
  • Fool
  • Him

• Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
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  • God

• If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Girl
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• Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

  

  Amy Adams
  • Up
  • Time
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• It's important I deliver a great show and a good time.

  

  Miranda Lambert
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Girl
  • Feels
  • Wait