Iris Johansen Quotes
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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I'm just a musician and a record producer.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Money just draws flies.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.
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I'm not making films just to be bold.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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I'm almost numb to misogyny at this point. It's just everywhere.
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God makes stars. I just produce them.
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It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate gregariousness, like, you kind of just want to be his pal.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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President Obama inherited a one trillion dollar deficit courtesy of George Bush and turned it into a three trillion dollar deficit courtesy of Karl Marx!
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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
