August Strindberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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I am an economist, not an astrologer.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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When 'Ice Ice Baby' was selling a million records a day, I bought several properties: a home next to Michael J. Fox in L.A., a palace in Miami and a mountain cabin in Utah. Then, a few years later, I took a break from touring, saw that my properties had cobwebs, so I sold them, and - to my surprise - I made a huge profit!
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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I can't remove the autobiographical slant from the things I write. You always bring yourself into what you're writing.
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When you don't inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
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I enjoy acting. It's not that I begin to think I'm getting better. I now fully know that I've made no improvement whatsoever since I was 20. I can live with it.
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Everybody knows that smiling is for little girls, the gays and certain kinds of fish who are smiling by accident.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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I dream, therefore I exist.
