Haruki Murakami Quotes
Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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When I wake up in a bad mood, I try not to stay in one. Learn to make the best of what you have.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.
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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.
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You know, people really don't understand what actors do.
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Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
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I have absolutely no political ambitions.
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I was sick of being articulate and loud and charming. I didn't want to play that guy anymore. I wanted to play the absolute opposite of that.
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Batman had a certain speech pattern that I established because he was always Sherlock Holmes-ian. He was Basil Rathbone. In other words, he was always musing about something.
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I know people still have questions about me. They still have questions about Ole Miss, whether we belong. With that feeling, you keep a chip on your shoulder that you want to prove to people that we are the best.
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
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Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
