Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.
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I don't like cursing in movies. I feel like cursing has become the new hackiness. You try to find substitutions for cursing.
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You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
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She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t.
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In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.
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The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
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For me, honesty is a huge thing, and loyalty, when it comes to relationships.
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Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.
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I think that's a luxury - to have a nomadic life and to be a kind of bohemian. You feel totally free and you can adapt yourself very easily. But at the same time you can totally lose balance, because you don't know where you belong anymore.
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One can win the attention and time and cooperation of even the most sought-after people by becoming genuinely interested in them.
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Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.
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Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.
