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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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 care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland.
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If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is a great format for us. It's a format we license from the BBC, so that can't travel for us, but we consider it a great success. 'Desperate Housewives,' on the other hand, a huge success for us internationally. 'Missing' has actually sold to 80 territories before it's even gone on the air.
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I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.
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To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
