Jo Nesbo Quotes
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
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I know all the critics.
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For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Christians are being systematically exterminated.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Winners never quit and quitters never win.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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The power to investigate is a great public trust.
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Money is not necessarily, although it helps a lot for happiness, it's not necessarily the best way to be happy, to be rich, you know.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
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For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
