Per Petterson Quotes
I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I try to photobomb as much as possible.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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As a boy, my favorite show was 'Superman' and my favorite movie was 'Star Wars' - along with other science fiction shows and movies. And I always wanted to fly.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I work very hard at each story, at every sentence.
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I despise writing in general, but yeah, I love writing the stuff that I direct.
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I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.
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There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.
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I do consider myself a Norwegian writer, or a Scandinavian writer, as my family tree reaches into both Denmark and Sweden. I don't think about it, of course, when I am writing.
