Linn Ullmann Quotes
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.
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Where there is Torah it sustains the world.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
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I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too. Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
