#sweden

International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#inhabitants #international #market #markets #million

Is there a Swedish Modernism? ↗

— Cecilia Widenheim

#modernism #sweden #art

When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was. ↗

— Teemu Selanne

#did #finland #hockey #i #i remember

The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions to the current contemporary arts agenda bear a recognizable cultural, or even national, identity. ↗

— Charlotte Bydler

#sweden #art

The notion of displacement destabilizes spatial hierarchies of senders and receivers, and turns the issue of historical causality into one or more negotiable genealogy and interpretative communities. ↗

— Charlotte Bydler

#sweden #art

I tell ya, I could have got some more jobs if I'd tried, but I went to Sweden instead. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#got #i #instead #jobs #more

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there. ↗

— Lee Hazlewood

#directed #i #lot #nice #sweden

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#becoming #growing #growing up #i #never

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#based #comedies #different #experience #experiences

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving