Jens Lekman Quotes
I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, 'You can't be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.'
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People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
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I've seen people in theaters, and it just doesn't work, because you're talking to the guy next to you the whole time.
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I start writing songs first as an entertainer, and I like funny stories that wrap up with dignity.
