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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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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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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A playmaker, he makes that play. . . . If you are (screwing around) on one play, that might have been your play to make.
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In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'
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It's really important that I have a personal life.
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Perspective is the most important thing to have in life.
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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.
