Noomi Rapace Quotes
For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
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People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
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When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
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The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'
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Sic rerum summa novatursemper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantumet quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
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Choir of Women: It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation. (tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus)
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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.
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Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.
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I try not to keep my head in the clouds .
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Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.
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Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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The starry cope Of heaven.
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For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.
