Hakan Nesser Quotes
If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.
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I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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If you want to accomplish twice as much, you have to work twice as hard.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
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I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.
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No one stopped me from playing when I was alone, but there were times when I wasn't able to, though I wanted to... There were times when nothing played back. Writers call it 'writer's block.' For kids there are other names for that feeling, though kids don't usually know them.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
