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Kenzaburo Oe Quotes

As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Kenzaburo Oe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: japanese
Birth: January 31, 1935

Topics

Life Family Relationship Society Way

I know better than anyone else that my time is near. I've had a good life, and you don't stop and complain at this stage of the game. I've made some mistakes, and I'd like to stay around a little longer and overcome them, but there isn't time. I'll miss baseball. That I know.

Joe Tinker

Life Good Time Mistakes Baseball

I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.

Anna Deavere Smith

Myself Student First See I See

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.

Jeffrey Tambor

Attitude Enough Go Say Talents Up

Everything you need to get that relaxed driving that brings consistency only comes with practice.

John Surtees

Practice Consistency Driving You Get

In Canada, there's a surprising worship of managerialism versus ownership and wealth creation. There's a real problem in this country with believing that management is the answer to our problems.

John Ralston Saul

Management Problems Problem Ownership

In preseason camp, there are no friends. when newcomers arrive trying to take not only your job, but maybe your best friend's job, you work together to try to help each other. Everyone is an outsider until you're given a uniform.

Sue Wicks

Work Friend Best Together Job Help

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

Tom Glazer

Great Discipline People Admire Seem

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

Mike Royko

Good Strong Impact Political Right

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Michael Tippett

Music Art American You Will Tell

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.

Diane Setterfield

Life Mother Home Heart Man Me

People who are lying are, understandably, more worried about being believed, so they work harder - too hard, as it were - at being believable.

Christopher Voss

Work People Lying More Hard Being

I think possibly what people working for one hate the most is indecision. Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision. The most important thing I can do is try and make myself very clearly understood.

Anna Wintour

Myself Decision Hate People Think