Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.Kazuo Ishiguro
Quotes to Explore
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
V. S. Naipaul -
In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
Aasif Mandvi -
I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
Pamela Hanson -
I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
Kate Moss -
I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
Kaley Cuoco -
In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
Taya Kyle -
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
Oscar de la Renta
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
Sam Smith -
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. Fisher -
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Orison Swett Marden -
Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
Yolanda Adams -
When I'm not surfing or sailing, I am to be found at the harbour working on my boat.
Laura Dekker -
I'm always late.
Sade Adu
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Every edit is a lie.
Jean-Luc Godard -
When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
The concept of the value network - the context within which a firm identifies and responds to customers' needs, solves problems, procures input, reacts to competitors, and strives for profit - is central to this synthesis.
Clayton M. Christensen -
When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
Bryan Lee O'Malley -
This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
David Nabarro -
I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
Kazuo Ishiguro