Stieg Larsson (Karl Stig-Erland "Stieg" Larsson) Quotes
I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I love India.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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We have deep depth.
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Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
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There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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You need a place to work that works for you, and you need people to understand that when you are writing, you are doing a rarefied type of brain surgery and therefore should not be subject to a million random interruptions.
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Purcell is a composer who had a formative influence on British music - even The Who now cite him as an influence. There's an intense, dirty harmony, but there's a Louis XIV kind of elan and style, too. He had the melancholy DNA of our national folk heritage.
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I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.
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Any day that is designated to shower the person you love with love is my favorite holiday.
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Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.
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We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
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Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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I grew up in a neighborhood that had a lot of things to offer, good and bad.
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I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.
