Haruki Murakami Quotes
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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Every child deserves to grow up knowing their potential and feeling confident that they won't fall at the first hurdle - that they cope with life's setbacks.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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Senator Clinton is very knowledgeable about national security and is probably going to be strong on defense. I have no doubts whatsoever that if she were president in January '09, she would not act irresponsibly and issue orders to conduct an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the consequences, and squander the gains that have been made.
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I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.
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If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
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I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people to come and see me because they want to, not because fashion dictates it.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you.
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You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
