Haruki Murakami Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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One of the books I remember reading when I was young and always thought would be a great role to play is Catherine in 'Wuthering Heights.' I like the classics.
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One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
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India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
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I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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With thrillers, there's such a fine line between what's good and what's cheesy and corny.
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For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down - it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.
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I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.
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When I have a chunk of time that I can really dedicate to music, I really want to get into it. I want to do some really hard stuff and push myself.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.
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Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings.
