Takashi Murakami Quotes
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.Takashi Murakami
Quotes to Explore
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
V. E. Schwab -
The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
Igor Ivanov -
My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
Jack Bowman -
Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
Dan Fogelberg -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
Iain Duncan Smith -
The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But there have to be all the right ingredients in place to make them work: the director, cast, publicity, distribution.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
Maggie Smith -
A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
Kate Grenville -
You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
L'Wren Scott -
I am a self-critical perfectionist.
Victoria Pendleton
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
Ibrahim Babangida -
In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
J. M. Coetzee -
I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
Kara Swisher -
I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae -
People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.
Kapil Sharma -
I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
Cameron Winklevoss
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Yeah, I feel good. Good about my game and my life.
Lee Westwood -
I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
Ted McGinley -
The historical materialist leaves it to others to be drained by the whore called 'Once upon a time' in historicism's bordello.
Walter Benjamin -
Flowers in the city are like lipstick on a woman-it just makes you look better to have a little color.
Lady Bird Johnson -
I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.
Keith Hernandez -
New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.
Takashi Murakami