Haruki Murakami Quotes
Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Actors who perhaps are super-confident and have absolute belief in themselves I always admire, because I can't really be like that. Because you never know what's right: what you feel inside versus what is portrayed.
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I have donated money to campaigns. And I have been known to take to the street in protest. But I am more committed to my immediate politics than general politics.
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And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Consumerist ads brainwash us into individualist and egotistic self-love.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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When I was a kid, we didn't have a TV until the late '50s, but I can remember watching Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Steve McQueen, and 'Gunsmoke.'
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I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.
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The only mistake guys can make is to try too hard with their appearance. There's something very unmanly about it.
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
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Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.
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Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,né lo profondo inferno li riceve,ch'alcuna gloria i rei avrebber d'elli.
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The problem is, I don't think I've got too much to offer at the minute. I'm busy working on myself. This sounds like real therapy talk, but it's like, you've got to be happy with yourself before you can go out and get yourself a girl.
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Problem is, once I sit at my desk and put all these down on paper. I realize something vital is missing. It doesn't crystallize - no crystals, just pebbles. And I'm not transported anywhere.
