Jens Lekman Quotes
I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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I know more than anyone the divergent views about my father.
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You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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The one thing coaches cannot tolerate... is the individual who grows arrogant because he excelled at a lower level and believes he has nothing else to learn.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
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And she shows you where to look Among the garbage and the flowers. There are heroes in the seaweed, There are children in the morning, They are leaning out for love, And they will lean that way forever, While Suzanne holds the mirror.
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We are now living in an age of literary exhaustion; we get used to the bleak landscape. Cyril Connolly said that the writer's business is to produce masterpieces; but what masterpieces have been produced in the past fifty years?
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A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world
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I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire.
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When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
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At the end of the day, all we're trying to do is get the hitter off balance. Get him in a position where he's not strong in the strike zone.
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God made a way out of no way.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.
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I would love to hear Marilyn Manson's fans or something, what their stories would be like.
