Quotes by Swedish/Sweden authors (page 11)

"I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement"

Astrid Lindgren, Author

"In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyone's very polite and controls their feelings"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I've always been very stubborn, had a very clear will of what I want to do"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I don't sleep with happily married men"

Britt Ekland, Actress

"There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"That's the new way - with computers, computers, computers. That's the way we can have the cell survive and get some new information in high resolution. We started about five years ago and, today, I think we have reached the target"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word"

Goran Persson, Politician

"We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"So I kind of lost track for a while, then I came back, I pulled myself together and I decided when I was 15 that I'm going to get sober and I'm going to become an actress"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I like doing fight scenes. I always have, and I insist on doing as much of that action as they'll let me do. I think that's easy for me"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"Don't hate me, but I've always been skinny. I got lucky"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life"

Queen Christina, Royalty

"I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"Women have a way of contorting things sometimes. We all have our moods, ups and downs"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"I think Stieg Larsson was pretty brave. He wanted to bring up things that we don't like to talk about, or like to ignore"

Noomi Rapace, Actress

"We think that the Kyoto protocol is a necessary document, necessary process. I am convinced that we will agree to disagree about substance"

Goran Persson, Politician

"Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open"

Goran Persson, Politician

"Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"Thunder and lightning. I have never - never - skied in thunder and lightning. It was a trip, for sure"

John Bauer, Artist

"In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line"

Malin Akerman, Actress

"Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe"

Goran Persson, Politician

"Do not be afraid that joy will make the pain worse; it is needed like the air we breathe"

Goran Persson, Politician

"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind"

Eyvind Johnson, Author

"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"We must make working life more human"

Goran Persson, Politician

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Quotes by Swedish authors