Haruki Murakami Quotes
Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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When I started acting, I was told over and over again, 'You're no good.' But I said to myself, 'You've got to keep it up.'
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.
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My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.
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Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.
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You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
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I've always looked old for my age.
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My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I've always had a connection with an older generation.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this.
