Nanna Øland Fabricius (Oh Land) Quotes
A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.Nanna Øland Fabricius
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.
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The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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I feel that people should have a license to have children, that they have proper education how to raise children. And that nobody should be allowed to be a parent unless they can prove that they are competent enough to be a parent.
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A successful collaboration is all about trust and respect. If you show people trust they will perform better.
Nanna Øland Fabricius
