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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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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Don't talk it, walk it.
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SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
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It seems to me that one of the most basic human experiences, one that is genuinely universal and unites-or, more precisely, could unite-all of humanity, is the experience of transcendence in the broadest sense of the word.
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To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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I spent ages figuring out things like viewpoint, how you tell the story, and so on.
