Maj Sjowall Quotes
When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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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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In life go straight and turn right.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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Some guys can do more talking in the ring, other guys do posing, body building, whatever the hell they do in the ring. But I don't have the big body, and I'm not the big smooth talker, but I can get in the ring and wrestle.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.
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But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
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Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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The pain of losing a loved one by the horrible act of murder is not lessened by the horrible murder of another, not even when it is cloaked as 'justice' and state-sanctioned. It is only a delusion to believe that one's pain is ended by making someone else feel pain.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.