Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
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I bought a girl roses once.
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I like a fresh face. I like clean skin. Fresh skin, cute color on the lip, cat eye, mascara, and I'm good to go!
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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People have a good time with all the catch phrases.
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There are several types of greenhouse gasses, but carbon dioxide is the most important.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
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I don't blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they've made a choice to be gay, because they don't.
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I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
