Henning Mankell Quotes

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It is as if he was sent to this earth with the sole purpose of writing this book.

Henning Mankell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: February 3, 1948 - October 5, 2015

Topics

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I just need green. I need to wake up and see grass and squirrels. I don't want to see skyscrapers.

Andre Leon Talley

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Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

John Thune

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Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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I will move to Dera, Beas, post-transitioning my executive responsibilities at Fortis.

Shivinder Mohan Singh

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Wes Anderson's mind must be an exciting place for a story idea to be born. It immediately becomes more than a series of events and is transformed into a world with its own rules, in which everything is driven by emotions and desires as convincing as they are magical.

Roger Ebert

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Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

Russell M. Nelson

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Stories matter to me. I look for a good script, story, and a strong part.

Disha Patani

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I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

Dennis Quaid

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Even though I lost my dad in just a tragic, sudden way, there are so many more stories that are so much worse.

Cole Swindell

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After I had my son, I was like, 'I can conquer the world.' I just delivered a 9 pound, 10 ounce baby. I was walking in my living room like, 'Yeah, the champ is here!' That's how I felt.

Ciara

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I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

Bob Lemon

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Step by step, brick by brick, the edifice of India's legislature is being destroyed.

Arun Jaitley

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