Katori Hall Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
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I have so many different voices and stories to tell.