Jostein Gaarder Quotes
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I was an expert horseman.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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But I've consistently worked for 10 years.
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Prague is not, strictly speaking, travel writing but it is, among other things, an excellent example of what travel writing is becoming, if indeed it hasn't already done so. . . . People are no longer so easily satisfied by the mere travel impressions of some outsider much like themselves. Instead they gravitate towards writers who actually have lived not simply in, but inside, a location for an extended period, as one lives inside one's clothes.
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I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
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The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.
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Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.
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The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I can find out something about myself. Writers have this narcissistic obsession about how we got to be who we are. I have to understand my ancestors - my father, his mother and her mother - to understand who I am. It all leads back to the narcissistic pleasure of discovering yourself.
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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
