Natsuo Kirino Quotes
In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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There is no doubt that counterterrorism takes time because it is not action against a regular army.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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I prefer to unwind by DJing. I learned that from Mike D from the Beastie Boys. After a show, he would DJ. Once I saw that, I wanted to do that. And now DJing is like my lifeline. I love the power it represents.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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A lot of the time when people get married in the infatuation, it will go down. That is inevitable. The infatuation stage will not last forever.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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So little time and so little to do.
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After the Dance was my first attempt at nonfiction. I'd never really participated in carnival, and I really wanted to go. It sounded like a wonderfully fun thing to do. And I wanted to write something happy about Haiti, something celebratory. And going to carnival gave me a chance to do that, because it is one of the instances in Haiti when people shed their class separation and come together.
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Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.
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I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
