Karl Ove Knausgard Quotes
I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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Hockey, honestly, was my first love. The excitement, the fast pace, the intensity of the game... I still love it to this day.
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As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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I'm extremely competitive with myself. But I'm not actively competitive with other women in the business. Which may have been a mistake. I've never had someone in my life, agent or otherwise, fighting for me.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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Women tend to give political candidates only about 10 percent of what males give, and males give women candidates only 10 percent of what they give to males.
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I think that the power of reinvention is very important.
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I never read the translation before publication. The most important things for me is that the emotion is captured in such a way that the feelings that are in the original are there, much more than the details, if they are right or wrong.
