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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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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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Team Rock: Away from the band Soundgarden, do you guys still hang out together?
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I strongly believe that American farmers and businesses can compete with anyone in the world if they are given a level playing field.
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Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
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I quite like that people tend not to know my name. I remember being at the Cannes film festival for 'All or Nothing.' I looked very different in the film - I had a little greasy bob and no makeup. I went to a dinner after the screening, and everyone completely ignored me. I got a real buzz out of that.
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The political solutions to the refugee crisis may be complex, but that does not mean we should abandon our humanity. We should not close our hearts, retreat behind walls, real or imagined, or ignore the pressing moral imperative to provide assistance and sanctuary for some of the world's most desperate people.
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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
