"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."

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Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.119, Faber & Faber

Kazuo Ishiguro

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“From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Everything goes by so fast that if you want to be a part of it, you need to go that fast. But because you go that fast, you don't lead the life you should lead.”

Source : "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.
“I didn't come in and say: "I'm a singer." I came into the band as a second guitar player and a vocalist, but not the songwriter. I had been writing poetry for years, so I sort of had the nature of the words. I felt like no one else could sing my lyrics, so I took a crack at it.”

Source : "Cap the Old Times: The Story of Interpol's Turn on the Bright Lights". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. November 29, 2012.
“Down to their innate molecular core, cancer cells are hyperactive, survival-endowed, scrappy, fecund, inventive copies of ourselves.”

Source : Siddhartha Mukherjee (2011). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.388, Simon and Schuster
“I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom?”
“There are plenty of people to whom the crucial problem of their lives never get presented in terms that they can understand.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1974). “William Lloyd Garrison”, Beekman Books Incorporated
“God has a part,and we have a part. God will not do our part and we can't do His part”

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