Hakan Nesser Quotes

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

Hakan Nesser

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: February 21, 1950

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LifeGoodDeathBookStoryThink

I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.

Joanna Newsom

LoveMusicAmericaWantThingsMake

I'm a Gemini and I have a lot of different moods. Sometimes I'm very serious and introspective and pensive, but other times I'm completely goofy and girlie. So, I like my songs to cover all my moods.

Jewel

SeriousSometimesGeminiGoofySongs

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

John Crowe Ransom

WorkExerciseYearNewWillOut

Mozart composed his music not for the elite, but for everybody.

Andre Rieu

MusicEliteEverybodyHisComposed

No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

Andrew Bird

MeJustSongsDissatisfactionTinker

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

Stephen Tobolowsky

AgeYearPlayGroupOldDriven

I think African Americans are resilient and hustlers by nature. I think they need to understand that you can take that hustle to the boardroom, but it has to be an education process.

Daymond John

EducationNatureThinkYouHustle

All of the trickster, rascal characters that I write have the voice I aspire to. In real life, you can't be that obnoxious and get away with it.

Christopher Moore

LifeVoiceYouWriteRealAspire

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Christina Ricci

MyselfThinkAlwaysEmbarrassed

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

Bradley Whitford

PeopleSwimmingFeelYouLookWay

I like to talk. I admit it.

Shannon Sharpe

AdmitTalkLike

As bad as the Obama administration is at trying to legislate without legislators, all too often, Congress is responsible for handing them the 'pen and phone.'

Todd Young

TryingPenBadPhoneCongressOften

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