Jens Lekman Quotes
It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating it.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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My goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.
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I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.
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I get this weird, existential crisis when I'm looking through Instagram - and then I'll realize we work in entertainment. We know all the smoke and mirrors.
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Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.
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I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.
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It's weird talking about the album as a living being with its own thoughts and direction, especially if you're the one creating it.
