Haruki Murakami Quotes
Narratives have the same power, I think. Some readers of my novels ask me, "Why do you understand me?". That's a huge pleasure of mine because it means that readers and I can make our narratives relative.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? What are they getting out of it? I don't quite get it. Because they have awards all the time; there's awards for butchers, the best meat served, but they don't televise it. I don't know why they do it for films or TV programs.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.
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If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.
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I never had time to dream about being anyone else.
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The U.S. has been in control of the domain names of the Internet since its inception. If we relinquish this control, it goes possibly to the U.N.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
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Somewhere in your make-up there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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Life is short and unpredictable. Eat the dessert first!
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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.
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Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.
