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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My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.
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Misery is a communicable disease.
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To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.
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Some of the hydrogen in your body comes from the Big Bang, and when you see a kid walking down the street with a helium balloon, you can say, 'There goes some of the primordial universe.'
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
