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Asne Seierstad Quotes

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: February 10, 1970

Topics

Change Book Nothing Write Different

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Music Mind Medicine

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.

Father Time Me Crazy Atlanta First

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

Work Black Student Southwest Example

Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.

Writing Talking Head Up Fiction Pop

I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America.

Matthew Heineman

Fire Rest Think America Look Escape

Once you start playing 'Call of Duty,' you better watch out, because before you know it, you've lost four or five hours out of your day.

Day Start Better You Lost Know

Most large media firms make outsized investments to acquire and market a small number of titles with strong hit potential, and bank on their sales to make up for middling performance in the rest of their catalogs.

Performance Small Rest Strong Media

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Steve Prefontaine

Best Sacrifice Gift Anything Give

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Look Cry Say Want Reason Gang

Prosecutors frequently overcharge, load up charges on individual defendants, knowing that three strikes laws and harsh mandatory minimum sentences will force people to plea bargain and essentially convict themselves because they're terrified of doing a life sentence for a relatively minor crime.

Michelle Alexander

Life People Doing Three Knowing Up

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

Music Technology Today Tomorrow You

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Time Hollywood Director My Time He

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