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 don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
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We can rise above our limitations, only once we recognize them.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.
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The musicians in the band, and myself as a performer, love the risks of the unpredictable and the feeling of jumping off cliffs musically.
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If I have managed to brighten up even one gloomy childhood – then I’m satisfied.
