Jens Lekman Quotes
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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There has to be a global mission of human progress.
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I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I have asked my mom and my sister a couple times if I should post something or not. Or if they think a video is funny.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
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When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop stuff off. The faster you go, the more chances you take. And the more chances you take, the greater the war between cyclists and cars.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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I'm the most ambitious person you ever met.
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To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them. You don't know what they're going to wreck and destroy.
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As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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I guess being French, I love Hollywood. I love Hollywood movies. Joseph Mankiewicz's 'All About Eve.' 'Mildred Pierce.'
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The biggest inspiration for everything I do is, of course, my wife, playwright Ruth McKee.
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When first presented with the jumble of the periodic table, I scanned for mercury and couldn't find it. It is there - between gold, which is also dense and soft, and thallium, which is also poisonous. But the symbol for mercury, Hg, consists of two letters that don't even appear in its name.
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Martial art is a form of expression, an expression from your inner self to your hands and legs.
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I think a lot of my anxieties and fears are things that are very abstract.
