Karin Fossum Quotes
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
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I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
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I never think of access or good will. I just want a good interview. I want guests to be informative and entertaining. I've never been concerned about someone's liking me tomorrow.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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Do what I want, be honest to myself and then it would do good for others, that's all, full on.
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Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke.
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My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C. - McKinley Tech and H.D. Woodson. Her example taught me the importance of equality for all Americans.
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I've just had a little boy, and my wife and I called him Elliott because 'E.T.' sort of saved my life because that film is absolutely about something being out there that's greater than yourself.
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I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.