Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.
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I think the institute of marriage is a noble thing. The idea of a partner for life is incredibly romantic. But now we're living to 100. A hundred years ago people were dying at age 37. Til death do us part was a much different deal.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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People talk about wanting amenities - downtown is the amenity.
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I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.
