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Linn Ullmann Quotes

I began writing 'The Cold Song' in the months following my father's death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: 'What now? How to proceed?'

Linn Ullmann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: August 9, 1966

Topics

Life Father Death Writing Song Cold

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

Jillian Michaels

Feeling Self-Worth Person Lazy Butt

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

Andreja Pejic

Muscle Most Female Mass Any Models

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability.

Mercy Otis Warren

War Late Cooperation More Ability

My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

Amy Bloom

Stars Great Sister Uncle Cocktail

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

Steve Erickson

Family Wife Television Now She Sit

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

Sophie Aldred

Girl Doctor You High Heels High

The idea of the vital movement of the world and its movement is simultaneity.

Robert Delaunay

World Movement Idea Vital

What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'

Ruth Negga

People Me Unexpected Look Say She

I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.

Matt Bomer

Business Tough See I See Watch Kids

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve.

Josh Duhamel

Best Care You Loving Deserve Own

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Alone Doom Concept Invented

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Diane Cilento

Father Silly You Acting Said Want