Jens Lekman Quotes
It's not difficult getting into the charts in Sweden. It's a very different musical climate, and in a very good way, I think, because artists like Jose Gonzalez or The Knife can actually get on the charts.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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My whole life is a theater piece.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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What I do is write books for an audience that thinks in a movie language. That's the way I think, and I also believe that not enough authors keep up with the audience.
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Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.
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Stylistically, things are becoming cooler. People are trying different things and combining genres.
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
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It's not difficult getting into the charts in Sweden. It's a very different musical climate, and in a very good way, I think, because artists like Jose Gonzalez or The Knife can actually get on the charts.
