Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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When I left the Giants in 2014, my comments were emotional, insensitive, and misguided, and I truly regret and apologize for my actions. I am committed to working hard to contributing to the success of the Giants.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.
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I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
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I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
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The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
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I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family.
