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Tove Jansson Quotes

Sometimes it's better to look at things than own them... owning means anxiety and lots of bags to carry around.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: finnish
Birth: August 9, 1914 - June 27, 2001

Topics

Better Anxiety Look Sometimes Own

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Food Roads Travel Budget Help Skies

I became a children's author by accident.

Children Accident Author Became

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

People Night You Know More Industry

I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Job Blue Think Wrestling Never Guy

If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

Life Decision Walk Trying You Up

To me, nothing beats McDonalds and a scary movie at home.

Home Me Nothing Scary Movie Beats

Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again.

Time Book Expectations Someone You

Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.

Shoes Profit Embrace Products Sell

If a critic doesn't think I can act, it's because I'm not acting. That's me - and that's the way I act.

Me Think Acting I Can Way Critic

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

Truth Memory Tell Fiction Just

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Speed More First Ball Beat Big

White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?

Music Time Blame Think Thought You

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