Michiko Kakutani Quotes

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Michiko Kakutani

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1955

Topics

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Always be yourself and rebel against what people tell you should be and be whatever you want to.

Andy Biersack

YourselfPeopleBe YourselfYouWant

I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.

John Chrysostom

WorkSeaGreatSoulKnowMy Own

I worked in the Clinton administration.

Andrew Cuomo

AdministrationClinton Administration

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

Matt Groening

LoveLove IsGunYouDancingLittle

When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community.

Michael Franti

CommunityShoesDaySomeonePoverty

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.

Michael Caine

ViewSomeoneGoCouchGetSix

If you have removed those people and situations that make your life more drama-like, then you're definitely a success. After all, who doesn't enjoy a quieter home and workplace?

John Rampton

LifeSuccessHomePeopleEnjoyYou

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Sophie Hannah

LiveHealthMeDriveTreatFriday

The concept of making a movie in which the director dictates is kind of exotic - and absolutely not truthful. Directing means allowing a great deal of collaboration and listening and having the ability to change your mind.

Luca Guadagnino

ChangeGreatMindCollaborationKind

Consciousness, when it's unburdened by the body, is something that's ecstatic; we use the mind to watch the mind, and that's the meta-nature of our consciousness; we know that we know that we know, and that's such a delicious feeling, but when it's unburdened by biology and entropy, it becomes more than delicious: it becomes magical.

Jason Silva

MindBodyBiologyFeelingKnowMore

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Jonathan Coe

PoliticsLookEntitledContinuity

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and John Cena, in 'The Wall,' are superheroes. They're very grounded, but the amount of training and stuff that soldiers bring to the field, they're like Iron Man.

Doug Liman

ManTrainingWallSoldiersBring

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