Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleBookWinnerYearValuesSure

I want to be part of every note, every single moment going on in the studio. I want nothing forgotten; I want nothing missed.

Max Martin

MomentWantMissedNothingSingle

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

Maurice Wilkins

LifeGrowthNaturalGeneticAble

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

Robert Greenwald

PeopleSafetyPoliticalRiskLine

Always try to reinvent myself; never try to stay the same person, because that's how people figure you out.

Rose Namajunas

MyselfPeopleYouPersonTryNever

The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque.

Ron Wyden

RidiculousTerrorismIdeaBetting

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

Rudolf Arnheim

WorldEyeObjectLeast

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

Russell Lynes

PeopleLookGoalDownTrueNever

Every time someone downloads a picture, the photographers get paid about 30% of what we charge.

Jon Oringer

TimePictureSomeonePaidGetEvery

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.

Denis Diderot

MemoryFeelingStrikeStringsSenses

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

Dawn French

StruggleSchoolDramaKnowMeet

Me not being able to play the way that I can play, that's when you kind of know it's that time.

Chauncey Billups

TimeMeYouI CanPlayKnow

There's a lot of creative freedom. Acting is a whole boatload of fun, but I prefer to do it on my own terms.

Clara Mamet

FreedomCreativeFunActingMy Own

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