Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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I want to see Brian Williams with no irony wearing a mustache.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.
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I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
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With the Jews, the questions are always open; we're always questioning. I love that questioning tradition.
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer.
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Amory Lovins has said that the only reason Americans look efficient is that each has 300 energy slaves. Those 300 energy slaves will now be reproduced among the elite of India.
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Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
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There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
