Erno Paasilinna Quotes
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.
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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.
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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight.
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Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
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As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such.
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The 'Station to Station' film has been fascinating to create. It feels as though it made itself in a way, and after awhile, the film told us what it needed and began to sculpt itself.
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Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.
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A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
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As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
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I made 'Enemy' to prep myself for 'Prisoners.' I had the need to direct something smaller in English before going to Hollywood. That's the way I sold it to Warner because they asked me if I was berserk to make a movie right before.
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Growing up, I was always playing with video games.
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Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.
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We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.
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Materialism blinds us to our spiritual poverty. Jesus rebuked the Laodicean Christians because although they were materially wealthy, they were desperately poor in the things of God . Puritan Richard Baxter said, "When men prosper in the world, their minds are lifted up with their estates, and they can hardly believe that they are so ill, while they feel themselves so well."
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Every soldier is an enemy.
