Camilla Lackberg Quotes
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I believe that you should gravitate to people who are doing productive and positive things with their lives.
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You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
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I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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But it's not just a game of finding literary references.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation.
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If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
