Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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I don't think about whether it's gonna be a dance record or a ballad or anything when I'm making music. I sit in the studio and I think, 'How am I feeling today?' and I write how I feel. It's really, really simple.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
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Audrey Hepburn has influenced me.
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I've spent a great deal of time over the past decade as a caregiver for various family members. It gives me a perspective on the struggles that many New Yorkers face with illness, disability, health care, insurance difficulties, and trying to work with and also take care of family members.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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I don't have goals in life.
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I would tell the young Francesco Totti to repeat everything that the older Totti did - if he's able to!
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
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Piracy has destroyed the domestic market.
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I said, 'When you are on your deathbed, Erran, pray that you never meet me in the place you are going to.'
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I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
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When you've been initiated, you can stand in the world differently. And I think it is up to all of us, we can have cheerleaders, we can have supporters, but it comes down to us as individuals, how do we now proceed? Do we have the tools to proceed?
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I think what happens when there's a scandal in your life, the things you depended on are taken away from you, and so you value what you have. I had two very nice little boys, so sweet, and a very good husband.
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The key in shooting any good round is to give yourself some chances and, tomorrow, if my swinging is feeling any good, I'll have some chances. But, if it's not, then I'll have to give myself those 15- to 20-footers and hope I can make those.
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No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
