Per Petterson Quotes
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said 'C'mon' purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.
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The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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When you do a film, when you do a television show, eventually someone comes along and will say to you, 'Don't say that because, one, you will offend someone, or, two, no one will get that. Someone's going to be confused by that, not get the reference and feel abandoned, and then they will get angry at the entertainment.'
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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
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At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post.
