Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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Barberries, or zereshk, are tiny dried red fruit with a tremendously sharp flavour. They come from Iran, where they're used to add freshness to rice and chicken dishes.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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People always think I'm not scared. I've noticed that whenever I feel stressed, everyone thinks I'm fine, and later, it's like, 'I was not fine.'
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Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.
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It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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It's the prerogative of the writer to rewrite the world into one he would like to exist.
