Erlend Loe Quotes

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

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• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Issues
  • Early
  • Self-Esteem

• I grew up listening to a lot of different types of music, and R&B in particular was something that I loved - Aaliyah, Usher, Alicia Keys, TLC.

  

  Yuna
  • Up
  • Music
  • Different

• Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Rest

• Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

  

  Aminatta Forna
  • Political

• I think the story is important in every business. Why do you exist, why are you here, why is your product different, why should I pay attention, why should I care?

  

  Jason Fried
  • Different
  • Important
  • Why

• I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

  

  Anna Lee
  • America
  • Star

• Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

  

  Leo Ornstein
  • Trying

• If an artist is going through a lot of bad publicity, I don't want to ask them about that. If they want to talk about it, I'll make them comfortable enough where they can bring that up on their own. Not only do I want them to feel comfortable, I want them to come back.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Up
  • Bad

• What the Chinese parent is conveying to the child is not that 'you've got to get A's or else I won't like you.' On the contrary, it's, 'I believe in you so much, I know that you can be excellent.'

  

  Amy Chua
  • Believe
  • Chinese

• I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

  

  Bret McKenzie
  • World
  • Free
  • Cool

• The government in Washington belongs to you.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

• I always feel ill-prepared for commentaries and it had been so long I was afraid I'd forget everything that happened on the film. But having everybody come together for it was really great. It was like a high school reunion. We all reminisced and just had a great time.

  

  David Fincher
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.

  

  Jon Postel

• Glasses are not only functional but can be a great way to express yourself and to change your look. As frames around your eyes, glasses are perhaps one of the most important aspects of how you style yourself.

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Great
  • Important
  • Change

• I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Lord
  • Appointments

• When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Hours

• What surprised me was that within a family, the voices of sisters as they're talking are virtually always the same.

  

  Elizabeth Fishel
  • Family
  • Voices
  • Sisters

• Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Teach
  • Inside
  • Nobody

• Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Adversity

• The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Lies

• I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

  

  Erlend Loe
  • Thinking
  • Stuff
  • Concerned