Paavo Haavikko quotes

“Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.”
-- Paavo Haavikko

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“Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.”
-- Paavo Haavikko

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“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

“Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.”

“We need not be intimidated by the wine snob because we know that, in the last analysis, he is only putting on a front. He may know more than we do, but how little he knows in comparison with what there is to know Wine, a hobby as fascinating and as human as one can find. One of the most fascinating aspects of the wine-hobby is the extent to which you learn all the time”

“Crafting is putting ideas into action and then holding them together with an inexpensive adhesive.”

“TV was my hobby. I loved the glitz. I loved how hot everybody was.”

“A secret talent or hobby Hmm I weirdly collect shot glasses.”

“Every professional was once an amateur.”

“No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,”

Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.15, Macmillan

“Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.”

“As an actor, I'm thankful I have lived not one life, but many.”

Source : "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". Press Conference, transcripts.cnn.com. August 09, 2002.