Haruki Murakami Quotes
My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
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The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
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I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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I take my life and put it on the football field, and I take the football field and put it in my life.
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Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.
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As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.
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The next time you interfere with me, more than smoke will interfere with you.
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After 'Place Beyond the Pines,' honestly, I was sick of myself. Sick of my own ideas. I wanted to do an adaptation, but everything I'd been reading, I just didn't understand it.
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I don't care how they think of it. Some of these people are acquiring some very good pictures by a lot of different photographers.
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MBAs know everything but understand nothing.
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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.
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I'm not sure if a grinning Irish guy who is speechless for 45 seconds is going to make good TV.
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I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
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I'm from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I moved to L.A. when I was about eleven years old. I always go back to Milwaukee whenever I can. Just chill with my grandpa and my grandmother and just be with family, be with people that were there before I got a million views on YouTube because of my music video.
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I've been to the combine a couple of times since I've graduated to see the talent coming through. It's about keeping tabs on who's coming up next. I tell them "You've got to deliver. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." You've got to be sure to succeed in it.
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My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.
