Hallgrimur Helgason Quotes

In Iceland, book lives matter in every sense of that phrase: The shelf-life of the book, the lives in the book, the life of the writer, and the life of the reader.

Hallgrimur Helgason

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So many people wait around for funding, and if they're unsuccessful, they don't make the film; if you've got a good idea, that seems so pointless. There's always a way of doing it; you've just got to find it.

Joel Edgerton

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I always dreamt of being a girl. One of my earliest memories is spinning around in my mom's skirt trying to look like a ballerina.

Andreja Pejic

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You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

John Paul DeJoria

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Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Robert Kiyosaki

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I am incredibly proud of Chipotle and our people - and grateful to our loyal customers - and while we are continuing to make progress, it is clear that we need to move faster to make improvements.

Steve Ells

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I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

Sidney Sheldon

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Most people have been touched by the battles of mental illness in some way or another. It's either going on in their families or next door to them, or they know people who have experienced it.

Tom Kitt

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I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Tom Sizemore

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One of the biggest things I used to struggle with was about things like going on holiday. Whereas all your friends can talk about something and plan something all year long, I know that I'm probably going to be away and I'm going to miss all of it. If a job comes up, you just can't be there.

Douglas Booth

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There's so much overlapping in science fiction.

Brian Herbert

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Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.

Algernon Sidney

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How are the faculties of man to be best developed and his happiness secured? The state of a king is not favorable to this, nor the state of the noble and rich men of the earth. All this is artificial life, the inventions of vanity and grasping ambition, by which we have spoiled the man of nature and of pure, simple, and undistorted impulses.

William Godwin

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