Haruki Murakami Quotes
I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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Everyone teases me in the family that I spend far too long chatting. So I think I've still got to learn a little bit more and to pick up a few more tips, I suppose.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
