Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

Tommy's got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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• I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Life
  • Different
  • Soul

• Anytime you get to work with an actor who is beyond you in experience and talent, I feel like they make you a better actor. You really bring up your game.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Experience

• You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Live
  • Reality
  • Dark

• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  

  Victor Garber
  • People
  • World
  • Try

• But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Theatre

• To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Realize

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Health
  • Point
  • Workaholic

• People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Art
  • Science
  • Strategy

• Deceiving himself well is the first quality of the statesman.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Quality

• 'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Guilty

• A god that can be understood is not a god.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • God

• Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I’ve lived most of my life already and I suppose I can argue myself into believing that I have no great cause to love humanity. However, only a few people have hurt me, and if I hurt everyone in return that is unconscionable usury.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• Under the shadow of earthly disappointment, all unconscious to ourselves, our Divine Redeemer is walking by our side.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Walking
  • Shadow
  • Disappointment

• You go through stuff, and you keep going.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd

• In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

  

  James Wolk
  • School
  • High
  • Summer

• I'm used to performing. I'm comfortable in front of people. I'm never the one who's fighting for attention, but I've always been comfortable.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Attention
  • Fighting

• My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Family
  • Mother

• ... let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away, and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a unity that is living.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Together
  • Personality

• I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Trying

• When you prepare a list of improvements and you make them small and achievable, you won't just stick to then, you'll increase the chances that you'll keep moving forward.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Chance
  • Improvement
  • Increase

• Tommy's got his shirt on. His favourite polo shirt.

  

  Kazuo Ishiguro