Top 42 Asne Seierstad Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. Anonymity became a release, the only place to which I could turn.
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#3. Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.
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#4. 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.
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#5. If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.
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#6. I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.
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#7. Be yourself!' said Gro. 'No one will hear any of you otherwise, still less trust you. That's the most important thing of all. If you're not yourself you just can't sustain it in the long term.
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#8. Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.
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#9. The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'.
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#10. What went wrong? Well, comrades, when the American investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed, it was not just a bank going broke, it was a political ideology going bankrupt. The failure of market liberalism. It ended decades of naive, uncritical faith in the market looking after itself. It does not!
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#11. It was very difficult to write about my own country, because I have always been the outsider looking in.
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#12. If my name had not been cleared, it would have been difficult, perhaps impossible, to continue as a journalist.
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#13. Wild animals walked in a straight line, tame ones tended to wander more aimlessly.
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#14. What the sounds and smells do not divulge, gossip supplies. It spreads like wildfire in the neighborhood, where everyone is watching one another's morals.
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#15. 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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#16. 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.
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#17. As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
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#18. Our answer is more democracy, more openness and more humanity. But never naivety.
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#19. The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.
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#20. If I leave, reality will devour me. Then they will all really be dead.
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#21. 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.
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#22. I would like my book to give people insight to the war before and after, but I don't think anyone could read my book and suddenly make up her mind about the war. I want to write for everybody.
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#24. A society gets the graffiti it deserves,' commented one criminologist on the street galleries that grew ever scruffier.
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#25. There are personal reasons, psychological reasons, but there could also be political reasons for becoming a terrorist.
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#26. There are many things one can think of when one needs someone to vent one's wrath on.
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#28. There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.
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#29. There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.
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#30. We have believing in this innocent feeling of nothing will ever happen to us, because all catastrophes always broad and happening to anyone else.
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#31. Being a war correspondent, and having covered four wars, I know that wars very seldom solve things.
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#32. I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.
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#33. Gerd called life 'existing minute by minute'. Every single minute felt like a battle. Time went on but life had stopped.
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#34. They played a game of dare - who could get closest to the flames?
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#35. We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
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#36. When a man has everything and does not know what more to do, he tries to teach his donkey to talk.
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#37. Why did you want children when you knew there was a war?' Mustafa
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#38. I always try to describe the situation just as it is. I try to find sentences that I believe tell the story best. Even my articles are more literary than ordinary news stories.
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#39. As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.
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#40. If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.
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#41. Evil can kill a human being, but never conquer a people!' *
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#42. I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.
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