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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Interesting Create Who Like Worlds

I like to play kind of the girls-that-eat-worms kind of character.

Character Play Kind Like

If we're going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Best People Seeds Encouragement Need

I've always felt that writing can be learned but not really taught. The best thing somebody can do for you is to put the right book in your hands at the right time. I grew up in a family where the right book was always being put in my hands.

Family Time Best Writing Book Hands

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Robert H. Schuller

Patience Time Decision Tree Storm

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Women Me Famous Illusion Kind Real

Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.

Man Colors Thought Feeling Will

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life You Living Hidden Own Forces

Sometimes we pee on each other before we go on stage.

Go Sometimes Stage Other Before

I spent 12 years of my life writing stories without black people. That's insane to me. It's insane that I could have believed in magical portals and dragons and all that stuff, but to believe a black person could be experiencing those things was unimaginable.

Life People Me Writing Believe

We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.

Lukas Forchhammer

Soul Jazz Hip-Hop Agree Pop Most

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Christina Aguilera

Limits Push Look Up Own Artists

If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Auberon Herbert

Sacrifice Effort Influence Bad Force

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