Takashi Murakami Quotes
In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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I'm obviously really opinionated, but as a producer, you don't necessarily want the person you're working with to try to impress you - you want them to just be themselves. Then you can edit or mess around with what they've come up with. But you have to allow the artist that space.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
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The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.
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I went down to the prison in Menard, thinking we were the vanguard, but down there, I got down on my knees and listened and learned from the people.
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
