Eyvind Johnson Quotes
A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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I grew up eating Cuban food all the time.
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I'm influenced by all types of music.
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I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.
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When I heard 'Jesus, Take the Wheel,' I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you're a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
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I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.
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If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
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I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.
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Each moment is a place you've never been.
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A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.
