Bin Ramke Quotes
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
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When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
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I grew up in the upper class, for sure. My family was kind of about that whole parties-and-horse racing thing. I can understand it's fun for some. I never enjoyed it.
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When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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The rich man... is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
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A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory. Art for art's sake is a retreat from criticism which ends in an impoverishment of civilized life itself.
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I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
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The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.
