Per Petterson Quotes
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Music is my release.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like 'aaaaa.... beeeee.... ceeee.' She's thinking you're from fuckin' Europe or somethin: 'OH GOD, WHERE'D YOU LEARN THAT, OHHH,' and you're going 'A, B, C, D, E, F, G'.
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A really good comedy, I think, is played as if it was real, and it's the circumstances that make it amusing. And I think that the - the inverse or the reverse is true for drama.
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I often had occasion to remind myself in years to come that self-interest isn't a principle- it's just self-interest.
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If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
