Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
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Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.
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I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.
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Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
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The same way that you are the main character of your story, you are only a secondary character in everybody else's story.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
