D. T. Suzuki Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
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I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.
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Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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I'll eat anything. I love food in general. I love traditional Mexican, carne asada. Just meat, beans, rice, and some good salsa.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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It's a huge step up from the European Indoors to then being a gold medallist at the World Championships.
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I'm a little old-fashioned.
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As a group in society, we've simply been ignored.
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When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
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Initially, less appealing to me than the idea of a vampire that is drawn by some misgiving or drawn by some sense of longing that he can't quite satiate.
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The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
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In terms of sustainability and what we eat and what its footprint is on the environment and the consequences of eating one thing versus another, obviously it makes a lot of sense to be eating insects. They're incredibly plentiful. They've got a very short turnover rate. You could be eating termites.
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One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
