Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
Quotes to Explore
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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Depth on different levels is so important to me. You look at a band like The Beatles, all their material has so much depth to it. And I want people to be able to run away with my melodies and get lost in them and take the lyrics and be able to relate to them.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
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Sharing presumes and creates equality.
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I try to place beautiful imagery next to fucked up imagery, because that's how I view things … I sometimes feel that no one's taken the time to write about certain things in rock, that there's a certain female point of view that's never been given space.
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In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.
