Haruki Murakami Quotes
Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
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I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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I've been racketeered on.
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.
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I've been insane from a very early age.
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A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
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When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'
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The business of finding a nation's soul is a long and slow one at the best and a great many prophets must be slain in the course of it. Perhaps when we have slain enough prophets future generations will begin to build their tombs.
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Some moments before you are aware of what you will do next - a time in which you subjectively appear to have complete freedom to behave however you please - your brain has already determined what you will do. You then become conscious of this 'decision' and believe that you are in the process of making it.
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There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.
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When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
