Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.
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You've been vilified, used as fodder, you deserve a piece of every record.
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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
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The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
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Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.
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I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.
