Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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The American dream is about freedom.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.
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Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes.
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I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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Death is always a reality, and life is incredibly short.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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Real Texans don't want any woman to die of cancer because she can't get decent health care or medical advice. Real Texans don't want any woman to lose control of her life because she can't get birth control.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I am someone who isn't always perfect.
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As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film.
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.
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When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.
