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My name is Amanda. I'm 22 years old and live in Norway.

Run when you can, walk when you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up. ~Dean Karnazes

Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes. ~Sara Teasdale

Veni, vidi, vici
(I came, I saw, I conquered)

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A list of artists to read up on, check out more of their work etc

  • JR
  • Steve Mumford
  • Zoe Strauss
  • Emily Jacir
may 15 2011 ∞
may 15 2011 +
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Source: Read all the books that Rory Gilmore has... on 43 things. Note to self: check out The Rory Gilmore Book Club at Goodreads.

  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Atonement: A Novel by Ian McEwan
  • A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
  • A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy
  • A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall
  • A Month of Sundays by Julie Mars
  • A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
  • Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
feb 5 2011 ∞
jul 21 2012 +
  • 43 things
  • 750 Words
  • Blogspot
  • Bokelskere
  • DailyBooth (can't delete my account yet, because they don't have that "feature", ugh)
  • Facebook
  • Fanpop
  • Flickr (and the yahoo mail account that goes with it)
  • Formspring
  • Gmail (not main)
  • Good reads
  • Hotmail
  • Hotmail (not main)
  • I Heart Movies
  • Lastfm
  • LibraryThing
  • Listography
  • Netvibes
  • Pinterest
apr 2 2010 ∞
oct 6 2012 +
  • Smile more
  • Be positive
  • Be less shy
  • Be humble
  • Forgive and forget
  • Be temperate
  • Set a good example
  • Fulfill my obligations
  • Be industrious and competent
  • Respect others
  • Try not to do things to others that I wouldn't want them to do to me
apr 1 2010 ∞
apr 5 2010 +

Today I decluttered my closet, and I also came across some blogs/links that has to do with this. And I also realized that even though I have more than enough of clothing, I tend to wear my favorites almost all the time. Here are some links dealing with minimalism (and clothes)

jun 16 2012 ∞
jan 11 2015 +
  • Some days I can't believe. Others, I'm on my knees. Trying to be heard (Goo Goo Dolls - Can't Let It Go)
  • The less I give the more I get back. Oh your hands can heal, your hands can bruise. I don't have a choice but I still choose you. Oh I don't love you but I always will (The Civil Wars - Poison & Wine)
  • Smoke and explosions surround me. A flood of hate, it drowns me. I cannot live this way (Brendan James - Hero's Song)
  • It's not the storm before the calm. This is the deep and dyin breath of this love we've been workin on (John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room)
  • And i can't wait to fall asleep to slip into my dreams- Where we can dance upon a star.. And I will be as patient as a boy in love could ever be. Cause i don't feel like i was real until you were a part of me. (Jason Reeves - Photographs & Memories)
  • May you win but stay humble. Smile more t... (Lady Antebellum - Never Alone)
feb 20 2011 ∞
feb 20 2011 +
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  • The Lost Symbol (2012)
  • Larry Crowne (2011)
  • Toy Story 3 (2010)
  • Angels & Demons (2009)
  • The Great Buck Howard (2008)
  • Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
  • The Simpsons Movie (2007)
  • The Da Vinci Code (2006)
  • Cars (2006)
  • Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005)
  • The Polar Express (2004)
  • Elvis Has Left the Building (2004)
  • The Terminal (2004)
  • The Ladykillers (2004)
  • Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  • Road to Perdition (2002)
  • Cast Away (2000)
  • The Green Mile (1999)
  • Toy Story 2 (1999)
  • You’ve Got Mail (1998)
feb 8 2011 ∞
jan 6 2012 +

Just for inspiration and ideas. Source. I also have a Rory Gilmore reading list.

  • The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  • The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
feb 5 2011 ∞
feb 5 2011 +
  • Tommys Inferno
  • Schindler's List
  • Bend it like Beckham
  • The Whale Rider
  • Shakespeare in Love
  • Forrest Gump
  • Goodbye Bafana
  • ZweiOhrKüken
  • Ghost Dog
  • Amistad
  • Elling
  • Sult
  • Syriana
  • Ensemble, c'est tout
  • 1984
  • Blood Diamond
  • The Hours
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Thirteen Days
  • The Stoning of Soraya M
  • Tatt av kvinnen
jan 29 2011 ∞
jun 23 2011 +
  • The Hurt Locker (2009)
  • Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
  • No Country for Old Men (2007)
  • The Departed (2006)
  • Crash (2005)
  • Million Dollar Baby (2004)
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  • Chicago (2002)
  • A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  • Gladiator (200)
  • American Beauty (1999)
  • Shakespeare in Love (1998)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • The English Patient (1996)
  • Braveheart (1995)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Schindler’s List (1993)
  • Unforgiven (1992)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
apr 6 2010 ∞
jul 3 2010 +
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  • Inception (2010)
  • Shutter Island (2010)
  • Chancellor Manuscript (2009)
  • Revolutionary Road (2008)
  • Body of Lies (2008)
  • Blood Diamond (2006)
  • 11th Hour (2006)
  • The Departed (2006)
  • The Aviator (2004)
  • Catch Me If You Can (2002)
  • Gangs of New York (2002)
  • Don's Plum (2001)
  • The Beach (2000)
  • Celebrity (1998)
  • The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
  • Titanic (1997)
  • Marvin's Room (1996)
  • Romeo + Juliet (1996)
  • Total Eclipse (1995)
  • The Basketball Diaries (1995)
  • The Quick and the Dead (1995)
feb 7 2011 ∞
feb 7 2011 +

at one time or another...

  • The A Team - Ed Sheeran
  • Take Off - Jeremih
  • Second Try - Travis Garland
  • Next 2 you - Chris Brown & Justin Bieber
  • Søvnløs - Burhan G
  • Gives You Hell - Glee Cast version & The All-American Rejects version
  • Hero's Song - Brendan James
  • Never Alone - Lady Antebellum & Jim Brickman
  • Flowers for a ghost - Thriving Ivory
  • Slow Dancing In A Burning Room - John Mayer
  • Mother, We Just Can't Get Enough - New Radicals
  • Wherever You Will Go - The Calling
  • I Giorni - Ludovico Einaudi
  • Wishing Weed - Jason Reeves
  • Poison & Wine - The Civil Wars
  • Wide Awake - Sasha ft. Maria Mena
jan 30 2011 ∞
may 27 2011 +