You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the...
I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.
If you're a Norwegian writer, you are not visible in the world. The door of the English language is very hard to open for a Norwegian writer.
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
The truth is "#9dream" is a descendant of "Norwegian Wood". Both are ghost stories. "She" in "Norwegian Wood" curses you with loneliness. The "Two spirits dancing so strange" in "#9dream" bless you with harmony. But people prefer loneliness to harmon...
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
Girls have periods and boys wank. Everybody.
Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
My Norwegian family says, 'You're the most grounded American we've ever met.'
Somos seres imperfectos que vivimos en un mundo imperfecto
Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
Todos nosotros somos seres imperfectos que vivimos en un mundo imperfecto.
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.
Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
Nights without work I spent with whisky and books.
She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.
Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.
Estaba en la plenitud de la vida y todo giraba en torno a la muerte.
MacReady: Hey, Sweden! Dr. Copper: They're not Swedish, Mac. They're Norwegian.
