quotes about Scandinavia

“As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.”

“Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of 'That Lucky Old Sun' was inspired by 'Rhapsody in Blue' - not influenced, but inspired.”

“Clearly, I think that there have been racial problems in America for a long time. I still think that, particularly during the second half of the Obama presidency, there has been a lot of emotion, a lot of feeling stirred up.”

“The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.”

“If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.”

“Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.”

“There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.”

“The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.”

“Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.”

Source : Elizabeth Wein (2013). “Rose Under Fire”, p.41, Egmont UK

“I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.”