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Natsuo Kirino Quotes

I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.

Natsuo Kirino

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: japanese
Birth: October 7, 1951

Topics

Good Age Job Woman Thought Late

I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

Max Beckmann

Life Political Real Belong Blindly

The minute a male model looks like he's doing a runway walk, it falls apart. It should look like they're just walking.

Michael Bastian

Walk Walking Doing Look Looks Just

Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.

Louise Penny

Life Success I Am Me Writing Genius

I think of protest as confrontation and disruption, as the end of silence.

DeRay Mckesson

Silence Think End Disruption Protest

I guess some of today's programming has rubbed off on me because I find myself having to set time around for touring, putting that together and then setting time around for recording.

Bootsy Collins

Today Time Myself Together Me Find

In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices.

Bob Ney

Winter Help Early Him Gasoline Fuel

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

Arjun Rampal

Good New York Me Doctor Friends New

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

William Henry Hudson

Time Believe Know Years Middle Our

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

Phil Collins

Brother Writing Think Thinking New

I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

People Dangerous Growing Now Oil

Marketing is selling an ad to a firm. So, in some sense, a lot of marketing is about convincing a CEO, 'This is a good ad campaign.' So, there is a little bit of slippage there. That's just a caveat. That's different from actually having an effective ad campaign.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Good Marketing Selling Little Sense

The better the coaching has become, the worse the game has become.

Scotty Bowman

Game Better Coaching Become Worse