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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I'm definitely a character actor. I've tried to limit anything with a uniform because I've done it so much. There's a lot more I can offer. It's just getting people to see something else.
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I believe that people just want to laugh and have a good time.
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An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into bad pudding to make it palatable.
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Time is more valuable than money, because time is irreplaceable.
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When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.
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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.
