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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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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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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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.
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I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
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In theory, parents are supposed to empathize with one other - find common cause in the fervent desire to preserve and protect the world for the next generation, and connect on some deep, almost mystical level that those poor souls who have not experienced this kind of all-consuming love cannot possibly comprehend.
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Even if you plan a marriage and a family, you are never quite prepared for the reality versus how you imagined it. In a lot of ways it's better, and in a lot of ways it's worse. That's life, right?
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People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
