Olav Thon Quotes
From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
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The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.
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Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
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Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
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Every thing in life that's first should be a celebration or celebrated with a lot of oomph.
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I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.
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Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
