Jens Lekman Quotes
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I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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The greatest moment is when you realize that the painting you've just finished is nothing. When you manage to detach yourself from it.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
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I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
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Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.
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I think, in a world of mouths, I want to be an ear.
