Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I like the fact that by mimicking the way memory works, a writer can actually write in a fluid way - one solid scene doesn't have to fall on another solid scene, you can just have a fragment that then dovetails into another one that took place 30 years apart from it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MemoryYouFallPlaceWayWrite

Democracy is not just about voting but about informed voting. If democracy doesn't have access to reliable sources of information and instead relies on social proof, then there is no way of distinguishing between junk evidence and actual knowledge.

Jens Martin Skibsted

KnowledgeDemocracyVotingWayJunk

Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.

Andy Behrman

DepressionPeopleThinkRealityYou

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Michael Ignatieff

DayWarPointHistoricalHappened

'Don't Kill My Vibe' was made in a writing session, by Martin Sjolie and I, after he'd asked me what I'd been thinking about lately. I started talking about this earlier writing session that was quite difficult. The song is about the feeling of not being respected as a person, and I think that's something that speaks to millennials.

Sigrid

MeWritingSongThinkThinking

That's what made me a man, having to fend for myself and being in a situation where there is no dad, no grandma, and no mom to help you. It changed the person that I am today.

Tory Lanez

TodayMyselfManI AmMeMom

I do comedy for real people.

Tracy Morgan

PeopleComedyRealReal People

We need to broaden our sympathies both in space and time - and perceive ourselves as part of a long heritage, and stewards for an immense future.

Martin Rees

FutureTimeSpaceLongHeritageOur

And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.

Michael Moore

PoliticalEnoughYouPowerfulWant

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.

Mo'Nique

CharacterLovedConversationKnow

The answers I remember longest are the ones that answer questions that I didn't think of asking.

Jonathan Kozol

ThinkQuestionsRememberAsking

I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.

Jose Gonzalez

GuitarSteelSoundOldNeedPlaying

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

Drew Carey

MirrorMeFaceThinkGoSee

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