Jostein Gaarder Quotes
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Ted Dekker -
I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.
Kate del Castillo -
Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
Natasha Little -
In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair -
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
Danica McKellar
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
Karel Reisz -
We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
Lamar Odom -
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.
Rainn Wilson -
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.
Victoria Pratt -
The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
Narendra Modi -
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
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To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what? Surely not pleasure.
Valerie Solanas -
Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before I swore - but was I sober when I swore? And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.
Omar Khayyam -
I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.
Maria Bamford -
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Though I battle blind,Love is a fate resignedMemories mar my mind,Love is a fate resignedOver futile odds,And laughed at by the godsAnd now the final frame,Love is a losing game.
Amy Winehouse -
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon
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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
Jenny Eclair -
If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
Taron Egerton -
On ne peut pleurer pour le monde entier : C'est au-delà des forces humaines. Il faut choisir !
Jean Anouilh -
I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
H. P. Lovecraft -
The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.
Albert Camus -
The universe is a great mystery.
Jostein Gaarder