Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeControlThoughtMy LifeBack

Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.

Meryl Streep

LoveGoodMotherMeActingLiving

I can't take any credit for people dressing like me, you know?

Solange Knowles

PeopleMeCreditYouKnowDressing

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

Trevor Dunn

I AmNowCollectingObsessedAm

Musical themes developing is a lot of what classical music is based on, and exposition and recapitulation - these kinds of things I find oppressive.

Julia Holter

MusicFindClassical MusicThings

I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.

Johnny Van Zant

MeRocksKnowEggsFansGoing

I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.

Chauncey Billups

BestThinkingI CanBeing The Best

I have a problem with superheroes in general because, politically, superheroes are cops. Superheroes work with the government to uphold the law. And who do the laws work for?

Boots Riley

WorkGovernmentLawProblemLaws

Keep the problems of clients and prospects confidential. Divulge information only with their consent.

Arthur C. Nielsen

ProblemsInformationClientsConsent

I've always hated the term 'alternative'; I only use it because when I say it, people know what I'm talking about. I always thought it was weird when guys like myself or Patton Oswalt or Dana Gould, these older guys, were called 'alternative' comedy.

Brian Posehn

MyselfPeopleThoughtWeirdTalking

This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everybody has a nutritionist. Everybody has everything. It's here that you realize, as people, we're all equal.

Alistair Overeem

CompetitionPeopleGamePlanYou

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

William Hazlitt

ArtPeopleOwnCunningWeaknesses

Government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people; it wasn't intended to be all things to all people.

Nikki Haley

GovernmentPeopleRightsThings

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