Banana Yoshimoto Quotes
I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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We just here to do our job.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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America's public schools have served their purpose. Free and compulsory education was good for a somewhat unpromising young nation.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
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It worries me that western journalists, especially British ones, call everyone they don't like 'marginal.'
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We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
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This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.
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I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.
