Joel Kinnaman Quotes
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
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We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
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I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
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Years of research in psychology has shown that rewards and punishments can be very effective in changing behavior. But, at the same time, they can create an addiction to rewards and punishments.
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A 2014 study commissioned by Facebook and done by Deloitte suggests that Facebook alone contributes almost $150 billion directly to the global economy, and when you add the peripherals, it nears $227 billion.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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I enjoy working with the American Cancer Society because I fully support its mission of saving lives and creating a world with less cancer and more birthdays for everyone.
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I don't have to fight if I don't want to.
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People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.
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Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
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Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.
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To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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The United States is actually playing catch up to China.
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
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Anything that's done to address unemployment in terms of massive stimulus spending is going to exacerbate deficits. And anything that's done to address deficits in the short-term is going to exacerbate unemployment.
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I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.
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I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.
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In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
