Asne Seierstad quotes
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“We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“I'm trying to see my own country with fresh eyes.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : Asne Seierstad (2009). “A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal”, p.154, Hachette UK
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“When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.”
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“There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
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“If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
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“If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
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“If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
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“I will get a loan and pay the money the court asks for. But I will not lay down my writing and I still say this was an important book to write.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview with Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
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“The judgment means a lot. As a journalist being accused of invading someone's privacy, there is always a risk that it will stick to your name.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "The Bookseller of Kabul author cleared of invading Afghan family's privacy" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2011.
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“The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.”
-- Asne SeierstadSource : "Bookseller of Kabul author Åsne Seierstad: 'It's not possible to write a neutral story'". Interview With Amelia Hill, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2010.
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“As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.”
-- Asne Seierstad
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