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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When I write a novel, I want it to be completely different from a screenplay. I'm very conscious of the difference, and I want novels to work purely as novels. Otherwise I don't see how they'll survive - why don't we just all go to the movies or watch television.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Work Survive Television Want Movies

I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.

I Have Learned Never Double Something

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Jessica Savitch

Marriage Effort Me Career Same Had

The viewer I picture in my mind when I do 'The Kelly File' is a woman who's had a long day, either with the kids or at work, or both.

Work Day Woman Mind Picture Long

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

I Am Hair Gray Scary Overnight Fine

I'm not very good at writing songs when I have a lot of clutter in my mind.

Solange Knowles

Good Mind Writing Clutter Songs Lot

I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.

Want Glass Clear Prose Pane

I had to say to myself, 'I haven't written enough about blackness, yet it's part of my consciousness and my lived experience.' I had to get over that anxiety of 'I haven't done this before.'

Myself Experience Anxiety Enough Say

Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

You Vegetables Will Touch Never Eat

I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my two best friends into learning to scuba dive with me in Sri Lanka - it was amazing but also hideous because we were learning in very difficult seas.

Family Love Learning Trust Best Me

It's so cheap to just release a movie. You can do it by yourself if you have to. Put in on the Internet if you have to.

Yourself You Can Do It Internet You

Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an ensemble.

Jason Mantzoukas

Focus Sharing Group Sketch More

Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.

Great Wife Me Loved Mood Room

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