Karin Fossum Quotes
I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.
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Only Arab Israel, the land of Israel, is our true homeland.
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to ending up at the Inauguration for the first African-American president, I'm speechless right now because I never thought I'd - I never ever - I couldn't even see that far. Even when I ended up in the music business, I couldn't see that.
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I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.
