Iris Johansen Quotes
I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Whenever there were parties, I wasn't invited because I began to be like that character. In a way, that contributed to the success of the performance.
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We don't have to have the same truths or personal belief systems to love one another and get along.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.
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I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.
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The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.
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As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.
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As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
