Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
Taylor Hicks
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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
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Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable.
Patrick Ewing
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
Umberto Eco
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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
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The regular Democratic Party and its organization was run by men who looked on women as little more than machine parts.
Ann Richards
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It takes two to speak the truth, - one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
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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
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
Alice Ripley
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I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
Johnny Mathis
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I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
David LaChapelle
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Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager lad Rush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad – But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad.
Lewis Carroll
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The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a human woman covered in swamp yuck, with wild red hair sticking out in matted hunks and arms flailing like a demented Bride of Frankenstein. I'd run from me.
P. C. Cast
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I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
Paul Muni
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
Laura Trott
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There are two kinds of animals on earth. One kind minds his own business, the other minds other people's business. The former are vegetarians, like cows, sheep and thinking men. The latter are carnivorous, like hawks, tigers and men of action.
Lin Yutang
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Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.
Kazuo Ishiguro
