David Lagercrantz Quotes
All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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I am a just man.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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The world can no longer accept, the world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries, only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in Algebra, Mathematics, Science and Physics?
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Get out of your own way. (p.28)
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People unconsciously know when you are not listening to them. Then they say 'No' to you.
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There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.
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All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.
