Asne Seierstad Quotes
There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
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I wouldn't say I was bullied, but I was definitely a bit of an outcast. It was more the kids thinking I thought I was cool. I started homeschooling in fifth grade, and I was much happier.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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New York City has an integration problem.
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I've become the hunted. I'm enjoying that. It's better to be the hunted than the hunter.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.
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I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.
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In Israel, if a person doesn't agree with you, she just says no. In Alabama, someone would say, 'I'll think about it.' We would take that literally. So, if you ask for a favor and someone says they'll think about it, they're really not thinking about it.
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I'm a T-shirt-and-jeans-with-combat-boots guy. And if I don't have to shave, I don't.
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I think it's great for the women to show that they are women and be feminine. And that's something that I've always promoted.
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Everyone's struggle is different. Just because I wasn't struggling on the streets, it doesn't mean I don't know what it's like to struggle.
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You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.
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The war with Japan had been enacted in the game rooms at the War College by so many people and in so many different ways that nothing that happened during the war was a surprise-absolutely nothing except the kamikaze tactics toward the end of the war. We had not visualized these.
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There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
