"Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff."

-- Yukio Mishima

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“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”
“I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.”
“When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.”
“So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.”
“Hearing Oscar Peterson was something that resonated within me. There are so many musicians I've been fortunate to play with. The people that inspire me are the people I play with.”
“I'm going to quit music. Then the government of Japan asked me to write a piano concerto - that was an offer I couldn't refuse, so that brought me back to music again.”
“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.”

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