David Lagercrantz Quotes
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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Justice is revenge.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
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My partner has to have good sized bones.
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What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.
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I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
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I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.
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I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I have real admiration for chefs who can maintain an edge and find new inspiration in their cooking after many years.
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Alan Turing is such an amazing, tragic story.
