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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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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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What is this 'mac and cheese'? Is that a black thing?
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Like at Halloween: I knew I'd arrived when I saw people dressing up on Halloween as my character.
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It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
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As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
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After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.
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Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness.
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The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.
