Haruki Murakami Quotes
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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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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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There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.
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I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.
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I have no agenda at all. I just want to do stuff I like. It can cost $200 million or $200 thousand.
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I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.
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Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
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That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
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Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
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Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.
