Jo Nesbo Quotes
You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn't want the question raised, 'What's your relationship with Daniel Ellsberg?' And not one of them wrote me a letter because they didn't want a letter of theirs to show up in my trash - which the FBI had been going through.
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L.A. is a very strange place. On the surface, it has an innocent appearance, like the stranger with the pleasant face that smiles and shakes your hand. But then you learn it is actually a lot less nice than you think, and there's a whole deeper, darker level.
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I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
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And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
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You have a feeling when you're recording, like, 'This is gonna translate really well,' and when you see it live, and it kind of proves that, that's an amazing feeling.
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As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.
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Culture drives great results.
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Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.
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There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.
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I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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Five of the above rules are of absolute necessity, and cannot be dispensed with without essential defect and often without error.
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At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.
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The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
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The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.
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How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?
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You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.
