Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
Quotes to Explore
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I love my family and I miss them very much but I'm a new person now. I know a lot of people will not agree with what I've done, but it was right for me.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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The scribbler's life is never done.
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When I'm painting the picture, I'm really painting a picture. I may have a flat-footed technique, or something like that, but still, to me, the thrill, or the meat of the thing, is the actual painting. I don't get any thrill out of laying it out.
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Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
