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.
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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.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
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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.
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I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger.
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We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
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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.
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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.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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America is a country ready to be taken-in fact, longing to be taken-by political leaders ready to restore democracy and trust to the political process.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Some of these people think the universe is five thousand years old, and they say it with a straight face. If somebody had an explanation saying why they thought the earth was five thousand years old, there's only two possible explanations: you're really stupid, or you're really cynical and trying to get really stupid people's votes.
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The universe is a great mystery.
