Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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I don't like television when it gets near to photographed plays.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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I never allow myself to be pressured.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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I believe journalism or news will migrate to the online medium.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I don't weigh. I don't weigh in at all.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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Yes, I am a lingerie model, but I have class.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
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God gives each his due at the time allotted.
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Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
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In the humanist ideal, the mainstream is where interesting debate, the generating of new ideas and creativity take place. In rational society this mainstream is considered uncontrollable and is therefore made marginal. The centre ground is occupied instead by structures and courtiers.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.
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The ritual of our daily lives permeate our very bodies.
