Astrid Lindgren Quotes
A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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I just want other people to know the kind of joy that I have in my life. I want other people to be able to have fun.
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
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Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.
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When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.
