Haruki Murakami Quotes
She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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Both spiritual companionship and spiritual motherliness are not limited to the physical wife and mother relationship, but they extend to all people with whom woman comes into contact.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
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A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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There are no more Walt Disneys anymore.
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The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
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Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.
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Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.
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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.
