"No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings."

--

Source : "Welcome to the N.H.K". Book by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, 2002.

Tatsuhiko Takimoto

#Might Quotes #Looks Quotes #Want Quotes

“The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.”
“I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

Source : "Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections". Book by E. H. Mikhail, Vol. 2 (p. 186), 1982.
“The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.”
“As a person, the only people who matter are my kids and how they see me.”
“Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?”
“And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.”
“I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with Canon's Fujio Mitarai". Interview with Irene M. Kunii, www.bloomberg.com. February 11, 2002.

You may also like:

Fuyumi Ono
Novelist
Keigo Higashino
Author
Miyuki Miyabe
Author
Mizuki Nomura
Novelist
Nagaru Tanigawa
Author
Natsuhiko Kyogoku
Writer
Nisio Isin
Novelist
Otsuichi
Film writer
Ryohgo Narita
Novelist