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Tove Jansson Quotes

Those damn Moomins. I don't want to hear about them any more. I could vomit on the Moomintrolls.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Want Damn More Vomit Hear Those

I was a senior in high school, and my mom saw on the news at work that they were having an open call in New York, and she thought it's for a musical, and maybe we should go and just sort of chalk it up to a new experience... And so, we did. We went.

Work Experience School New York Mom

I just wish I could understand my father.

Michael Jackson

Father Wish Understand Just Could

It'd be nice to learn enough from each mistake that we'd be guaranteed to never repeat that same mistake twice. But, how many times have you said, 'I'll never do that again,' only to find yourself right back at it a few days later. Learning from our mistakes requires humility and a willingness to look for new strategies to become better.

Learning Mistakes Yourself Humility

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image.

Stephanie Coontz

History Time Experience Personal Own

People sometimes ask me to name the greatest coach in NFL history. George Halas may have set the standard, but Don Shula has won more games than anyone, and he has done it in the most competitive era. He had an incomparable ability to evaluate players, to motivate them, and to teach them the game of football.

History Football People Me Game

Being polite does not mean being mummified.

Mean Being Polite Does

The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

Community People Think Comedy Doing

As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.

Together School Competition Know

I'm a really slow writer. What I need to start writing on any given day, is a kernel, a line of dialogue, anything I can sense concretely.

Day Writing Start Slow I Can Need

Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet - feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field - is a high point to my day.

Morning Water Day World Farm Quiet

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

Pierre de Coubertin

Improvement Possible Individual Inner

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Listening Feel Understanding Way Any

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