Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.

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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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All things are hush'd, as Nature's self lay dead,The Mountains seem to nod their drowsy head;The little Birds in dreams their Songs repeat,And sleeping Flowers, beneath the night-dew sweat;Even Lust and Envy sleep.
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You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape.
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There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
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When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
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I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest.
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It didn't matter whether he was nearby or far away. His image would drift up into your mind just when you least expected it, shocking you, making your chest pound. Making your heart ache.