Linn Ullmann Quotes
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
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'You have no mind to be unkind,' Said echo in her ear: 'No mind to bring a living thing To suffering or fear. For all that's bad, or mean or sad, you have no mind, my dear.'
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If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.
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I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.
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You either swing a band or don't swing a band and that's what's lacking today.. There aren't any guys who get back there and play with any kind of guts.
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I have the experience of age and suffering.
