Astrid Lindgren Quotes
Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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I've always been in love with the States. When I was a kid, we would take these long summer holidays in Texas, Nashville, and all over. I fell in love with the people, the food, even the smell. You don't necessarily get that in old Europe.
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One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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There's no sex in Middle Earth.
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I have seen the sun break through
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I'd been in Hollywood for five years before I started writing 'The Guild.' I worked enough to pay all my bills. So I was very lucky in that respect. Most people don't make a living acting.
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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
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I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work.
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Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.
