Jo Nesbo Quotes
You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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My arrest in Egypt happened in 2002, and I was convicted to five years as a political prisoner.
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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
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When I was a 7-year-old girl, in my bedroom, on my karaoke machine, I would sing 'On My Own' or do a one-woman version of 'Les Miserables.'
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see. I trust that there is a divine order beyond my control. And I trust that no matter what happens, I will be all right.
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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.
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Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.
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Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.
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Others haven’t had the same luck. In the wealthier countries a mediocrity that hides the horrors of the rest of the world has prevailed. When those horrors release a violence that reaches into our cities and our habits we’re startled, we’re alarmed.
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You can't visit readers where you think they are. You have to invite them home to where you are and try to lure them into your universe. That's the art of storytelling.
