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Stieg Larsson Quotes

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: swedish
Birth: August 15, 1954 - November 9, 2004

Topics

Light Writing Literature Question

In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.

Jodie Foster

Beauty Fear Live Hero Survive Story

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

Andrew Haigh

More Background Subtle Still Exists

I wouldn't be happy to be a specialist. There are some very interesting artists in history who refused to be nailed down into a category, like Da Vinci or Jean Cocteau. You could say Cocteau was a great poet but also a film-maker, interested in theatre, sculpture, and could never identify with any of these forms exclusively.

Robert Lepage

History Great Happy Be Happy Theatre

When I talk to teachers they tell me the things they'd most like from any government are a reduction in bureaucracy, support to help ensure good discipline and a reformed Ofsted.

Michael Gove

Good Discipline Government Support

My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.

Steven Rodney McQueen

Life Cinema Real Real Life Come How

There's almost nothing that upsets Americans more than the idea that somewhere, somehow, somebody is getting his feelings hurt.

Tucker Carlson

Hurt Feelings Nothing More Somewhere

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Rudolf Steiner

Nature Soul Language Secrets Become

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Lou Holtz

People Me Die Forget Three Way

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

Chief Joseph

Man Free You Born Run Backwards

My new song 'Shrug' I created with two guys. The idea was a message about ignoring haters. People one-up you, stay true to yourself.

Christina Grimmie

Yourself People Song Haters You New

When considering a career move, consider the most important assumptions that have to prove true and how you can swiftly and inexpensively test if they are valid. Also, remain realistic about the path ahead of you.

Clayton M. Christensen

Path Assumptions You Career True

My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

Brian Dennehy

Stars Great Me Tough Grandfather