Jo Nesbo Quotes
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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I no longer limit myself.
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I am a very selfish person.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
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Bullies always have another target.
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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A lot of groups spend their whole cultural and aesthetic identity trying to move away from Africa, which I think is a mistake. One of the reasons I love Cuba and cultures like that is because they're not trying to move away from their African roots, they're trying to embrace them. That's part of the culture.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
