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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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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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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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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…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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Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
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I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
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I went to drama school in the U.K., where we did endless Chekov plays.
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History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
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Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.
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Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
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I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.
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The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.
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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.
