"I still have a suspicion of charity and……" — Kazuo Ishiguro
"I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the years since I have been a rather privileged writer, I identify more closely than perhaps I should with those social workers. Had I not become a writer that would have been me. Lots of our friends are still in that world and I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the 70s and became disillusioned in the 80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world."
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138 Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure,…
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I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.
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You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
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I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British and my future was in Britain. And…
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You could say I'd rewritten the same novel three times and I thought I had to move on. The success…
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I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might…
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Don’t you wonder sometimes, what might have happened if you tried?
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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if…
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I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health…
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I was raised on the purest comedy there is: 'I Love Lucy.' I was raised watching 'Three's Company' and sitcoms…
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and…
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just…
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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My favorite music is '80s music which drives people around me crazy. I really love it.
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In the early days of the video game business, everybody played. The question is, what happened? My theory - and…
— Nolan Bushnell
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
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Well, when I started modeling in the mid-'80s, the girls who did shows did shows, and the girls who did…
— Naomi Campbell
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The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro ,…
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the…
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