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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

Think Man Communicate Language
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Suffering Wisdom Wish Wise
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I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Always Anybody Anywhere Difficult
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I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Along Aspects Beautiful Before
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I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.

About Just Me Parallel
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I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

Because Call Express Fiction
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You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Asleep Awake Dream Intentionally
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Be Happy Because Cats Confidence
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You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don't have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don't know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don't know how much I pay in taxes.

About Best Buy Earn
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Books Like Listen Music
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When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Able Could Directly Emotions
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Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Difficult Feelings I Think Independent
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If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

About Kind Language Make
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I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

About Actual Because Decision
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I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.
Any Principle Support War
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

About Because Describe Every
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I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

Any Been Belonged Company
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Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Anything Days Free People
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

Any Come Just Plan
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Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Compete Culture Games High
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For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

Awake Continue Dream Everyday
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Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).

Cats I Write Just Like
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I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

About Am Country Feel
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I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Created Japanese Literature Models
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My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.

Anything Heroes How Know
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Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.
Among Appreciate Freedom Life
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I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

Been Every Full Getting
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I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Concentration Fun Helps Me
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Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Humans Matches Me Mere
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Am Between Could Distinguish
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Been Book Break Could
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There's just something about being on stage and being with the people that, once that camera turns on, you find the strength to keep it cool, look good, act like you're not cold, act like you ain't nervous, act like you aren't scared. I think that comes with confidence and practice.

About Act Being Camera
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I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!

Bugs Go Good Humidity
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My dream girl... well, I love eyes. And lips. She has to have nice lips!

Dream Eyes Girl I Love
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I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with or spilled food all over myself.

Been Clumsy Food Front
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I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

Acceptance Appreciation Career Good
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If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look.

Dancing Eyes Look See
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It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't be anonymous.

Anonymous Auditions Bad Blessing
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Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Because Comic Desire Funny
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Maybe forced retirement isn't necessary after all.

After Forced Maybe Necessary
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My own parents were touchy-feely.
MyOwn Own Parents Were
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Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

After Back Before Car
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Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.

Accept Career Comedies Confined
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The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.

Cliches Find Generic Most
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The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
Acting Again Cable Career
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There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!

After Always Element Fear
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