Arto Paasilinna Quotes
It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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Saving a life overrides territories.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I trained at The Groundlings and was surrounded by some very funny women and also some very unfunny men. I didn't feel a sense of things being different because I was a girl.
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Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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I was very much influenced by early electro tracks of the 80’s. This is an ode to my influences while keeping production tight and modern. I used a vocoder to disguise my voice and classic Minimoog bass, and Roland TR808 kick drum to get the nice vintage feel.
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Society likes to file you away, put you in this or that category. And I never fit any category. Maybe that's why I was left out of a lot of things, or why my work was not really understood, because there was no precedent for it.
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You can't teach it [jazz singing]. There's nobody who can teach you how to sing jazz. Either you know how to sing jazz, or you don't.
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It is hard to teach an old dog to sit, as well as it is difficult to teach an old Laplandian rafter to swim.
