Jo Nesbo Quotes
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.
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There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv
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My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
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The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.
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Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
