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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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
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What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.
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I believe there are angels among us, sent down to us from somewhere up above. They come to you and me in our darkest hours, to show us how to live, to teach us how to give, to guide us with a light of love.
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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.
