Per Petterson Quotes
'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.
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Frustration is not a work plan.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Before I got to the NBA, I always flew coach - it was the worst time of my life. I remember being 14 or 15, and it was such a struggle to fit into those seats.
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Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading.
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'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.
