Ninni Holmqvist Quotes
I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
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When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.
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There's only so much you can control in life.
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Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.
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Did you figure out the head fake? It's not about how to achieve your dreams. It's about how to lead your life. If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself. The dreams will come to you.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick or a self-destroying or even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
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If you're given gifts or blessings in your life, it's up to you to help the guy coming up behind you.
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Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.
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We're going to move a lot of crude (oil) in this country, and we have to learn how to do it very safely. 'Buffett: Moving Oil By Rail Safely Is A Major Industry Concern' Investing.com (24 April 2014)
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And I'm telling you now the frustration
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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You all seem to think that you should marry someone when you feel this intense emotion, which you call love. And then you expect that the love will fade over time, as life gets harder. When what you should do is find yourself a nice enough fellow and let real love develop over years and births and deaths and so on.
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I wanted to live a proper life with deep, interwoven relationships for better or worse, which only death could separate.
