Astrid Lindgren Quotes
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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The conclusion that I have come to is that actually, no religion, whether it's Islam, Christianity or any idea based on scripture or texts, is a religion of 'anything,' really.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I've dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.
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Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
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One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much.
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I do much less sparring and always with the purpose of working on something in particular.
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If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
