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“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it's possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It's very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”
Source : "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.
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“[On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”
Source : The Observer, August 07, 1966.
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“I am also a believer in an integrated treatment approach to autism.”
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“Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.”
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“Crackdown had Dave Ball playing on it. Flood worked on our next album, and Adrian Sherwood worked with us on Code.”
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“The world is changing and the physical barriers are down now. It's time for the emotional barriers to go down. And what better place to start than school?”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.”
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“I am pleased to inform you of the decision of the Government of the Republic of Iraq to allow the return of the United Nations weapons inspectors to Iraq without conditions.”
Source : "Iraq agrees to weapons inspections", www.cnn.com. September 17, 2002.