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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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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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
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When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and how it wasn't a matter of not having food or not knowing how to end it, but it was a matter of creating the political will.
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Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.
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Barack Obama, who might be mercifully closing the Clinton parenthesis in presidential history, is refreshingly cerebral amid this recrudescence of the paranoid style in American politics. He is the un-Edwards and un-Huckabee - an adult aiming to reform the real world rather than an adolescent fantasizing mock-heroic 'fights' against fictitious villains in a left-wing cartoon version of this country.
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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.
