Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

When you're lucky enough to have a good film made of your novel - and 'Never Let Me Go' is, believe me, a heartbreakingly good film indeed - you get wonderfully talented individuals each focusing on their special area.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMeBelieveEnoughYouGo

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

Jennifer Connelly

TimeBehaviorPerfectMy OwnAlways

From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.

John Harington

LawyerLegalHidePhysicianYour

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

Andie MacDowell

GirlMeCareerPersonSameStar

The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.

John Monks

ChangeBestPeopleHelpEuropeWho

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

PeopleTragedyDareDislikeSuffer

I'm doing more of my U.N. work and doing the African Union Summit and things like that.

Angelina Jolie

WorkDoingMoreThingsSummitUnion

The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Michael Dirda

UglyMeDownPageKindLine

Every time before I go on stage, I'm nervous.

Ski Mask the Slump God

TimeGoNervousStageBeforeEvery

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids.

Robbie Kay

ThinkFairyHonestTo Be HonestKids

I am very lucky in that if I don't get a job for six months or a year, I've got other things I can do and am fit enough to still do physical work.

Rory McCann

WorkJobI AmEnoughYearI Can

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

Ron Chernow

PeopleGenerationStock MarketLost

It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

Mary J. Blige

LoveIdentityYouFindPersonYoung

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