Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes

You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.

Karl Ove Knausgard

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• When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • Me
  • Games

• So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Life
  • Play

• The biggest challenge we all face is to learn about ourselves and to understand our strengths and weaknesses. We need to utilize our strengths, but not so much that we don't work on our weaknesses.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Work
  • Challenge
  • Learn

• My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Him

• These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Support
  • Become
  • Immigrants

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• I deserve attention not because of any talent, but just because of who I am.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Attention
  • Talent

• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • People
  • Believe
  • Girl

• The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • War
  • Free
  • Government

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • You
  • College
  • Back

• Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Career

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Goal
  • Story
  • Helpful

• Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • World
  • News
  • White

• The spiritual reality of the Indian world is very evident, very highly developed. I think it affects the life of every Indian person in one way or another.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Life
  • World
  • Reality

• For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Life
  • Me
  • Temptation

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• I'm really focused and obsessed with writing things that are specific. I don't like big rock lyrics - I find them infuriating.

  

  James Murphy
  • Writing
  • Rock
  • Lyrics

• I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.

  

  Ted Dexter
  • May
  • Think
  • Down

• When I left my band, I had to start over from scratch, and that's a scary place to go.

  

  Johnny Colt Train
  • Band
  • Scary

• I fail frequently - I just try to keep it quiet.

  

  Ashton Kutcher

• You don’t think when you play music, you just try to play and be in it. It is the same for me when the writing is going really well. It’s the same kind of feeling. I’m just in it. It’s not the words, it’s not the sentences, I’m not aware of it. Then it’s good.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Good
  • Music
  • Writing