Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: November 8, 1954

Topics

MemoryPeopleOpportunitiesEndSee

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

Jennifer Aniston

LoveYourselfThinkYouPlaceOut

I'd like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.

Andrew Forrest

WorldAustraliaMindsSeeUniversity

The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

Matt Groening

CharacterYourselfStupidComedyYou

I remember watching the Blu-ray, and also when they first released it on DVD in the collection of all three movies of 'The Godfather,' and seeing all of those scenes that they cut out, and there wasn't a single one of them that I wished they had kept it, but they were the most exciting thing to watch anyway.

Matt Reeves

RememberSeeingThreeMoviesFirst

Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me.

Michael Gambon

CharacterPersonalityMePlayActor

You want to mix acting styles correctly. People approach the work in different ways. You want to make sure no one wants to kill each other because the approach is different.

John Wells

WorkPeopleYouActingWantSure

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

Steve Buyer

AgeGreatDepressionBestStruggle

I think I became an actress because I didn't know who I was, and I certainly didn't like the person I saw when I looked in the mirror.

Trudie Styler

MirrorThinkPersonKnowSawLike

I don't know what I'd do if I had to look pretty all the time.

Shirley Henderson

TimeLookKnowPrettyHad

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Mickey Mantle

CareYouWhoHearThoseBoos

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.

Jaron Lanier

TechnologyColdFeelDoneWay

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Dean Kamen

FireMeLanguageWheelInventions

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