Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

John Barrasso

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I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.

Maxine Kumin

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Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

John M. Grunsfeld

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If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Sophie Kinsella

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I was in this boys' choir for five years, when I was 10 until 15.

St. Lucia

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Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.

Steven Pinker

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We must all assume out responsibilities to take the country forward.

Lucas Papademos

ForwardCountryOutAssumeTake

Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.

Dinaw Mengestu

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Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

Donald McCaig

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But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.

Chris Patten

LeadershipThinkPoliticalDoingYou

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

Chuck Palahniuk

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To know that someone decades later is still just as impactful as they were when they were alive, we need pioneers like that.

Annie Ilonzeh

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