Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

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• I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Know

• I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Try

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Job
  • Career
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• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Music
  • Done

• Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

  

  Orlando Aloysius Battista
  • You
  • Always
  • Opportunities

• People don't know how to behave in public anymore.

  

  Gallagher
  • People
  • Know
  • Public

• I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Technology

• I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Night
  • Hate
  • Makeup

• Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Community
  • Growth

• I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Speak
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• Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.

  

  Fat Joe
  • True
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• My show in Egypt was called, 'The Show,' or, 'Al Bernameg' in Arabic. Basically, it was a political satire show. It started on Internet by three, four-minute episodes, and then it evolved into a live show in a theater, which was something that was unprecedented in the Arab world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Live
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• On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
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• I love comedy, but I was just obsessed with 'SNL' growing up.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
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  • Comedy
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• I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hurt

• You don't play villains like they are villains. You play them like you know exactly where they are coming from. Which hopefully you do.

  

  Mark Margolis

• All of us live in history, whether we are aware of it or not, and die in drama. The sense of history and of drama comes to a man not because of who he is or what he does but flickeringly, as he is caught up in events, as his personality reacts, as he sees for a moment his place in the great flowing river of humanity.

  

  Carl Mydans
  • Live
  • History
  • Die

• Render to God what you owe him; recognize the obligations you are under to him.

  

  Louis XIV
  • God

• One can never have too large a party.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Party

• I try not to think about the idea of reaching more and more people, because once you get in that mindset, I think you lose the point of why you're doing it in the first place. Still, the best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
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  • Trying

• I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro