interviews

The world is held together with the help of cellular tape and good conversations. For an explanation on the ‘one-word-biography’s’, see the quotation below.

Dick Advocaat (trainer – miljonair)

Harald Doornbos (waaghals – journalist)

Anders Aslund  (adviser – hawk)

  • “He [Russian President Vladimir Putin] is too rich to leave”

Artemy Lebedev (designer)

  • “Of je een roebel hebt, of een miljoen dollar – dat maakt het verschil”

Elke Tindemans (politica)

  • “Dat keur ik niet goed, maar ik begrijp het wel”

Adil Nurmakov (PR manager, activist)

  • “Secondly, the system was purchased in Belarus. How can you trust an e-voting system produced in Belarus?”

Mark Walsh (projectmanager)

  • “A river doesn’t stop HIV”

Erik Hockheimer (arts)

  • “Noem me maar een HIV-consultant, ik ben er al mee bezig sinds 1985″

Yura Vinogradov (chauvinist, pub-owner)

  • “Am I in trouble? Not yet”.

Boris Dittrich (activist, politicus)

  • “Fascisten. Fascisten zijn het, ik heb er geen ander woord voor”

Marco Cappato (politician)

  • “Ciao Olaf, how are you?”

Sophie in ‘t Veld (politicus)

  • “Dan moet ‘ie maar oprotten”

Nikolaj Aleksejev (gay-rights activist, businessman)

  • “Things are changing, I can feel it”

Coen van Zwol (journalist)

  • “Bloggen is diefstal. Het is al een inbraak waarbij je een briefje achterlaat”

He opened the closet, and there was a library card catalogue inside. “Cool.”
He said, “This is my biographical index!”. “Your what?” “I started it when I was just beginning to write! I’d create a card for everyone I though I might need to reference one day! There’s a card for everone I ever wrote about! (…)
“What do you write on them?” “I write the name of the person and a one-word biography!” “Just one word?” “Everybody gets boiled down to one word!”

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Penguin 2006. p 156-157