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Karl Ove Knausgaard Quotes

In 'Min Kamp,' I wanted to see how far it was possible to take realism before it would be impossible to read.

Karl Ove Knausgaard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: norwegian
Birth: December 6, 1968

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Impossible Possible How Far See Take

We sang a lot of church music. We were very active Baptists. Supposedly, I started singing when I was being given a bath - at 14 months or something like that. My mother and dad both swore that was true, but I'm sure it wasn't very good... We always had the Metropolitan Opera on the radio on Saturday afternoons.

Good Mother Music Singing Church

If there's something I hate the most, it's feeling helpless, powerless.

Jillian Michaels

Hate Feeling Something Helpless Most

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Change World Decide Bring Call Us

I work in the house next to where I live. We bought a smaller house that I use as my office and the place where my two employees work... We've got tens of thousands of letters from kids stored all over the house in places you would usually put dishes and other things like that.

Work Live Employees You House Place

I don't usually read reviews.

I've never seen myself as a pop singer. I grew up listening to gospel, soul and rock. My approach to pop is that, when I was doing my album, I wanted to have raw, genuine lyrics, but wanted it to be easy to process.

Myself Soul Listening Process Doing

The weirdest I've felt was my first job ever. It was an editorial in London. They made me take my underwear off and cover myself with a shower curtain. It was almost see-through, so I was like, 'What's this all about?' I used to be quite shy, but modeling has made me more comfortable in those types of situations.

Myself Job Me Modeling Shy London

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

Simple Brooklyn Lifestyle Kid Just

It's not the easiest thing in the world to act with Harry - we are very close. I'm not saying it won't ever happen again but it's best to work with other people. There are no professional boundaries at which to stop when you act with a sibling.

Work Best People World Saying You

I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Life Myself People Writing Face

I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida.

Swimming Think Cuba Florida Without

My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.

Chauncey Billups

Home Time Wife Practice Wake Up Go

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