Haruki Murakami Quotes
Can't trust people. Won't do any good. They'll kill you everytime. They'll kill eachother. They'll kill everyone.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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I learned early in my career, where you get so wrapped up and so excited, that all of a sudden you don't think. So I worked very hard to keep myself suppressed. And that's one of the reasons I wasn't gregarious with the gallery.
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My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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I don't own a scale, and Tao banned the word 'fat' from our house. If we eat too much, we say, 'I feel clogged up.'
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I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
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I never wanted fame.
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Prince's manager once told me that I was the only person other than Prince who can recruit from the streets. Which was very flattering.
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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
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When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.
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Can't trust people. Won't do any good. They'll kill you everytime. They'll kill eachother. They'll kill everyone.
