Hallgrimur Helgason Quotes

Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.

Hallgrimur Helgason

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I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

Amy Ryan

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Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

Amish Tripathi

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Ask me for my shirt off my back, I'll give it to you. Tell me? Not a chance.

Roddy Piper

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I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Jared Leto

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There is always one thing that turns you into an icon, an iconic image: in my case, a catsuit. But the icon 40 years later doesn't really want to know because it's not relevant to me.

Diana Rigg

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I'm proud - or really more thankful than anything - for all the work that I've gotten.

Annie Ilonzeh

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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.

Alice Morse Earle

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We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past.

Sun Yat-sen

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The youth of France do not want a new neo-liberal contract.

Peter Hall

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I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.

Pauly D

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My personal life was fair game. And that's what hurt me.

Marla Maples

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'The Breakfast Club' was one of my favorites.

Lena Waithe

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