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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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If it's just brushstrokes wrestling around, it isn't much of a picture book, is it? There still has to be a picture. And maybe it needs to be a picture of a dog named Daisy or a little girl riding a bike. So I have to be careful before I get too carried away in the manner itself.
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When we first started, everything was animated, everything was comedy, and there was really nothing that was longer than about two minutes, because that's all audiences would watch.
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I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. Mark McNairy, all those are amazing.
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Some things can be perfectly expressed by sound alone and images would only be disturbing. Other times, sound would be possible, but visuals are much stronger and closer to what I want to express and then again, they sometimes overlap perfectly.
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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.
