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I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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I'm very fortunate in that I don't have money problems. I have lunch with my wife at home. I don't have to commute, so I have much more time with my family. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

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The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight. ↗

— Harold Rosenberg

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