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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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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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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At sixteen I was like: "I need to get an album out now!" - even though I was only sixteen. I was always in a little bit of a rush to be an adult.
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I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
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I worked in sales. It was definable, it had a quantifiable approach to accomplishment that had a great deal of importance to me. It had a degree of clarity that I loved. And of course, it was core.
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For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.
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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.
