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Kazuo Ishiguro Quotes

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Culture Looks Misleading Something

What we want, above all things on earth in our public men, is independence. It is one great defect in the character of the public men of America that there is that real want of independence; and, in this respect, a most marked contrast exists between public men in this country and in Great Britain.

John C. Calhoun

Character Respect Great Men America

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

John Cusack

Movies More Eat Up Got Oxygen

When a child is born, it is immersed in an atmosphere charged with the stellar vibrations peculiar to that moment, which are stamped upon each atom of the sensitive organism by the air inhaled with the first breath.

Max Heindel

Moment Child Born First Air Breath

To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.

Michael Beschloss

Father History People Remember Boy

If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.

Steve Harvey

Morning Character People Me Think

My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.

Sissy Spacek

Failure Fear Me Roots Go Let Go

People have this idea that the more pious and devout I am, the more successful I am. Which is very dangerous. If you look at faith in that way, you're bound to fail at both - spiritually and in your career.

Troy Polamalu

Faith I Am People You Look Career

People call me a whole lot of things, but above anything else, I'm a fighter, and it's going to be hard to accept an identity without that.

Ronda Rousey

Identity People Me Fighter Accept

Inside every human being there are treasures to unlock.

Mike Huckabee

Being There Human Inside Human Being

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

Loretta Young

Death Pain Think Always Afraid Been

The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.

Brian Fallon

Things Strings Like Use Organs Very

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

William Graham Sumner

Men Financial Greed Connection Say