Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.Kazuo Ishiguro
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
Olivier Martinez -
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
Lady Starlight -
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
Cara Delevingne -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender -
I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
Rajiv Ouseph -
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
Samira Wiley -
Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
Dana Perino -
I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
Karl Urban -
Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
Eddie Murphy -
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
Octavio Paz -
Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
Only silence perfects silence.
A. R. Ammons -
When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
Felicity Jones -
My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
Jackie Chan
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CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
Fabiola Gianotti -
It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
Iris Chang -
No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were only 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.
Brian Urquhart -
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'
Jacki Weaver -
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
Kazuo Ishiguro