Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

LifeLiveEnjoyMomentsYouFind

I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

Amandla Stenberg

LoveLiveWorldThinkPowerfulLose

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something.

Stephen Graham

AgePowerAmbitionSomethingGoing

I feel so lucky. When an actor that has been struggling for so long makes the transition into being an actor full-time, it is the most amazing feeling. It's just sort of like a 3,000-pound weight gets lifted from you, and you're able to mostly focus on just being an artist, which is an amazing, blessed luxury I have.

Steve Zissis

FocusAmazingBlessedLuxuryYou

I never wanted the business to dictate my life. I'm sure I've sacrificed and missed out on a lot of stuff, but I don't know what that stuff is, so I just raised kids, and I wanted to be around for that.

Steve Zahn

LifeBusinessMy LifeKnowMissed

Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn't take any brains to complain.

Robert A. Cook

PositiveHelpSituationSayWill

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

Tom Golisano

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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!

Rita Dove

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From the beginning on, newspapers have prospered for one reason: giving readers the news that they want.

Rupert Murdoch

BeginningGivingNewsWantReason

You don't get the fox to be in charge of the chicken coop. You don't give the outgoing regime - which has been practicing dictatorship, is an authoritarian system, it's a bunch of military people - the task of changing Egypt into a second republic, a new Egypt with democracy, freedom, rights, etc.

Mohamed ElBaradei

FreedomPeopleDemocracyYouNew

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

Christine Gregoire

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I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

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