Haruki Murakami Quotes
Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other.
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We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.
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My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"
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I'm not Elvis. I don't get chased by paparazzi.
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I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.
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Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.
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But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.
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Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.
