Jo Nesbo Quotes

Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

Jo Nesbo

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My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

Jessica Savitch

TimeGoalCorrespondentNetwork

The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.

Jencarlos Canela

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Deep non-REM sleep almost hits the save button on those recently acquired informational pieces so that when you wake up the next morning, you have remembering rather than forgetting.

Matthew Walker

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One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.

Matt Mullenweg

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I would be an activist but never a politician. As an activist, nobody owns you.

Sinbad

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By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Roger Ebert

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Comedy just comes naturally, so I've always gravitated to comedy.

Rose Abdoo

ComedyAlwaysJustNaturally

We have a big fan base in Australia, but none of us have been before.

Lukas Forchhammer

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I never had an issue with gender.

Judy Sheindlin

GenderNeverIssueHad

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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I want young readers to know that to tell their own story is the most important thing they'll ever do.

Deborah Wiles

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When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

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