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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Miracles seem to attest to the presence of a loving and compassionate God, one who wants to help us, who wants to speak to us and encourage us.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Frank Sinatra did 'Born Free', Tony Bennett did 'Walkabout,' but you have no control over who does what, really. So you just hold yourself responsible for the stuff you do, and then get filthy rich on all this stuff that other people have done.
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Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.
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I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
