Astrid Lindgren Quotes
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Justice is revenge.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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I learned that saying you love your friends isn't enough: that love is a verb - it requires Acts of Love. It is all about the doing, not the saying, and now I make a point, every day, of emailing or phoning or making a plan with those I love.
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Creating stars in laboratories on the very planets you inhabit turns out to be a bad idea.
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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
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What’s her name? Claire, what’s her name?
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You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
