Jo Nesbo Quotes
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
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I don't put people down. I build people up. That's how I always wanna be looked at.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
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People, me included, have a truly emotional thing about this iPad.
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I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.
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I had two starts, really. The first was going to the Italia Conti stage school, aged 15. I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, 'Oh God, I quite like this acting thing.' The second start was meeting Mike Leigh when I was 22. He showed me I could play people that weren't like me.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
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I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.