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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It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.
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When I find a look that I like, that's my entire wardrobe.
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Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.
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If you want to start reading Swedish crime fiction, you have to start with Sjowall and Wahloo.
