Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Important
  • Action
  • Doing

• I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

  

  Walter Legge
  • Arts
  • Useless
  • Committees

• Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • History
  • True
  • Soul

• I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Time
  • Know
  • Ice

• I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Up
  • Challenge
  • Write

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Girl
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Him

• People have to do what they want to do.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Want

• Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character are soldered into one.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Character
  • Growth
  • Facts

• Anchormen shouldn't cry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Cry

• I'm confident in the fighter I am, and I have nothing to worry about.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Worry
  • Confident
  • Fighter

• Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Business
  • Competition

• Teachers today are breaking down obstacles, finding innovative ways to instill old lessons, proving that greatness can be found in everyday places.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Today
  • Everyday
  • Greatness

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Want
  • Way
  • Communication

• Yeah, sue me.

  

  Eminem
  • Yeah
  • Sue Me

• With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Fire
  • Projects
  • Frustrating

• I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

  

  Chris Messina
  • People
  • Good

• As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Different

• When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Me
  • More
  • Supposed

• I've seen my mom confined to a wheelchair in the last three years of her life. Both her knees had given way, and there was no way she could undergo surgery at her age. Even though I was concerned for her, I didn't know at that time what she had to go through.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro