Jo Nesbo Quotes
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
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In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.
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Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.
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Armed people are free. No state can control those who have the machinery and the will to resist, no mob can take their liberty and property. And no 220 pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110 pound woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil? Is that wrong?
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The emotions can take you out of a game.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Due to the closure of many deaf schools in the U.K., deaf children are forced to attend mainstream school. I don't mind this idea: I think it's inclusive, and it better prepares children for life in a hearing world. I don't mind this idea - if that child gets the right support.
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'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
