Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Time stays, we go.
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Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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I never go wild with nails.
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You don't just luck into things as much as you would like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it is friendships or opportunities.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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The following terms all mean one and the same thing: God, goodness, mental health, truth, decency, happiness, freedom, reality, peace, love, sensibleness.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion! What feminism does not need, it seems to me, is an endless recycling of Doris Day Fifties clichés about noble womanhood.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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Who peppered the highest was surest to please.
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
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Who wants to understand the poemMust go to the land of poetry;Who wishes to understand the poetMust go to the poet's land.
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When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,And I like to take up space just because I can,And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.I care less and less what people think.
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Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
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No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.
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You laughed for the marrow in their bones that was not yet ready for laughter; And you wept for their eyes that yet were dry. Your voice fathered their thoughts and their understanding. Your voice mothered their words and their breath.
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I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.
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Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)
