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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For me, a line has to sing before it does anything else. The great thrill is when a sentence that starts out being completely plain suddenly begins to sing, rising far above itself and above any expectation I might have had for it. That's what keeps me going on those dark December days when I think about how I could be living instead of writing.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.
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In our house, dinner is synonymous with family time. Recently, it has felt like the best chance for all of us to really connect - something that I find myself wanting more of as my kids are getting older.
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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
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Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
