Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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Many people think that being a graphic designer means going to an expensive art school and buying expensive software that will cost you thousands of dollars. This is so far from the truth. There are hundreds of online education centers that offer top-notch graphic design training.
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My reward in life for growing up a little bit was that Mary Steenburgen came into my life, and we have been together for 19 years.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
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The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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I definitely think there could be stricter teen driving laws.
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I'm not the biggest motorcycle fan - they're cool and a lot of fun, but they're scary as well!
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Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.
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Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
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In A-ball, you're either going to move up, or you're going to get released. That kind of paranoia played a lot into the players' mentality leading up to the events of 'Eight Men Out.'
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Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.
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Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and therefore make them unusually complicated. We should seek a simple solution.
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Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!
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Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.
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I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.
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I will never have anything that is remotely technical near my bath time. I completely zone out and stare up at the ceiling. For me, it's like a form of meditation. It's a time where I can just actually turn off.
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I've been quite lucky in that the roles that I've been able to play are all kind of outsiders.
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It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.
