David Lagercrantz Quotes
I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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Truth in drama is forever elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive. The search is clearly what drives the endeavour. The search is your task.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Many states favor joint custody.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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'Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.'
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I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I'm a strange kind of author - I like assignments. I wasn't clever enough to invent an iconic figure like Salander, but she's my kind of girl.
