Jo Nesbo Quotes

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

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• The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

  

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• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

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• The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.

  

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• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

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• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

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• I wasn't a ladies' man.

  

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

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• In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

  

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• Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.

  

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• A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.

  

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• Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.

  

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• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  

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• I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Moral