Jo Nesbo Quotes
I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I just want to do my job.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.
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Life is like an analogy.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.
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The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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In and of itself, the market is not, and must not become, the place where the strong subdue the weak.
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I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortable in that water bed. In the middle of the night you would hear something happening - water and bubbles. I would always think there was some intelligent life in the water bed.
