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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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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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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Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
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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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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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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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Akhenaten's allegedly monotheistic worship of Aten and the more naturalistic art produced during his reign, a revolutionary break from the more formal art of earlier periods, have made him a sympathetic figure to many.
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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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I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
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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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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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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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Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia.
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I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.
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What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?
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My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.
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The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.
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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.
