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It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.
Jan Egeland
Time
Conflict
Problem
Hide
Political
Old
Fighting
Every
Other
Every Time
Meet
Only
Fact
Leaders
Learn
Practices
How
Political Leaders
Stop
Themselves
Each
Peaceful
Here
Resolution
Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very small resources - a large group of people and we can now do even more.
Jan Egeland
People
Group
Our
Resources
Has-Been
Somalia
More
Small
Remarkably
Been
Effective
Very
Successful
Helped
Large
Large Group
Even
Now
Assistance
I have been working, as emergency relief coordinator, on an international scale, very hard to build a wider alliance of partners in assistance efforts.
Jan Egeland
Build
Scale
Relief
Emergency
Alliance
Partners
Been
Very
Efforts
Working
Hard
International
Coordinator
Assistance
Wider
I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
Jan Garbarek
Me
Key
No Chance
Find
Strongly
Feel
Piece
Very
Chance
If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.
Jan Garbarek
You
Key
Try
Will
Phrase
Some
Feel
Make
Sound
Fit
Right
Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
Jan Garbarek
Same Thing
Jazz
Else
Out
Something
Something Else
Davis
Coltrane
Doing
Same
Moving
Moving Out
Miles
Miles Davis
Certainly
Thing
The only element of jazz that I keep is improvisation.
Jan Garbarek
Jazz
Only
Improvisation
Element
Keep
There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.
Jan Garbarek
Jazz
Involved
Moved
Certain
Away
You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
Jan Garbarek
Music
You
Key
Whatever
Think
Enter
Find
Some
React
Around
Just
Place
Moment
Need
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.
Jan Garbarek
Music
Me
World
Closed
Jazz
Circuit
Classical
Classical Music
Term
Like
Baroque
I've been watching more American TV because of all the great TV series that have come out in the last five to 10 years. I'm a 'Sopranos' fan, I'm a 'Wire' fan, I'm a 'Mad Men' fan. I'm a 'Deadwood' fan. It makes me optimistic for the future of storytelling on TV that producers are willing to take that kind of jump.
Jo Nesbo
Future
Great
Me
Men
Mad
Mad Men
Out
Kind
TV
Willing
TV Series
More
Take
Wire
Come
Sopranos
Deadwood
Because
Makes
Been
Years
Jump
Optimistic
Five
American
Fan
Storytelling
Producers
Series
Last
Watching
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
Jo Nesbo
Every
Think
Say
About
Write
Writer
True
Also
Himself
Fiction
Certain
Certain Extent
Creators
They Say
Extent
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
Jo Nesbo
Architecture
Water
Edge
Changed
Visit
Admire
Boring
See
Cosmopolitan
Rather
More
New
Town
Until
House
Opera
Opera House
Tall
Go
Lot
Ships
Modern
Eighties
Much
Harbour
Now
Downtown
Oslo
Museum
I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.
Jo Nesbo
Time
You
Guard
Saw
Seemed
Like
Venezuela
Afraid
Really
Your
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
Jo Nesbo
Great
All My Friends
Out
Something
Deliberately
Steered
Write
Had
Clear
Got
Friends
Trying
Wanted
Who
European
Novel
Nowhere
Set
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
Best
Crime
Made
Definitely
At Least One
Scandinavian
Would
Thriller
Could
Writers
Had
He
Written
Name
Felt
Least
Go
Been
Norwegian
Fiction
Wanted
Literary
Literary Fiction
Show
Who
Many
Novel
Compete
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores.
Jo Nesbo
Crime
Bookstores
Broke
Scandinavian
Per
Since
Were
Novel
Serious
Ever
At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.
Jo Nesbo
Time
Business
Financial
Economics
Analyst
Nineteen
Brokerage
Administration
Pretty
Both
Knees
Firm
Studying
Leagues
Sure
Became
Stockbroker
Going
Norwegian
Soccer
Worked
Premier
Professional
Played
Player
Started
The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.
Jo Nesbo
Nature
Dark
Will
Secrets
Most
Talk
Much
Things
'Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.
Jo Nesbo
Me
You
Will
Past
Meet
Telling
Voice
Driving
Know
Also
Lines
Happening
Story
Story Lines
Interesting
Then
Forward
Eventually
Phantom
Technique
Present
Two
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
Jo Nesbo
Me
Father
Joe
Brooklyn
Name
Call
Up
Norwegian
Grew
Grandparents
Used
Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.
Jo Nesbo
Time
Myself
Great
Me
Together
Think
Worshipping
Gig
High
See
Some
About
Having
Part
Great Time
Singer
Make
Audience
Artists
Them
Playing
The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.
Jo Nesbo
Me
Game
Think
Market
Machine
About
Something
Like
Until
Off
Stock
Stock Market
Again
Turn
Video
Video Game
Turning
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
Jo Nesbo
Construction
Plot
Write
Come
Ideas
Normally
Start
I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.
Jo Nesbo
Work
Me
Crime
Jim
Thompson
Books
Introduced
His
Friend
Loved
Novels
When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.
Jo Nesbo
Good
Great
You
Book
Will
Great Idea
Madonna
Pretty
Pretty Good
Case
Had
Picked
Idea
Name
Like
Know
Up
Getting
Established
Children
Good Chance
Actually
Chance
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