Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes
Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.
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I mention the need of cooperation and confidence among the men who work, no matter what may be their relative ranks, because it is the vital factor underlying everything. Only as we are willing to work today, work as we never have worked before, will civilization survive.
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I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
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Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.
