Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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• I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • Today
  • Learning

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • You
  • Bullying
  • Bully

• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Live
  • Change
  • Peace

• I've always been drawn to historical fiction.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Always
  • Fiction
  • Historical

• Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Reality
  • Vision
  • Leadership

• It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Spiritual
  • Unseen

• I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Find

• I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Child

• Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Unstoppable
  • Virtually

• When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old-hell, not even growing up.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Die

• The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.

  

  Ann Richards
  • Men
  • Women
  • Party

• It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth

• You will hear thunder and remember me, And think: she wanted storms. The rim Of the sky will be the colour of hard crimson, And your heart, as it was then, will be on fire.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Heart
  • She
  • Remember

• The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Good
  • Writing

• We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

  

  Quintilian
  • Writing
  • Impossible
  • Simplicity

• You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Writing
  • Hungry
  • Surprised

• In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

  

  Penelope Spheeris
  • Children
  • Running

• Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro