Jens Lekman Quotes
Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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I am always late because people stop me for autographs and say hi.
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If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already living that future. If I wonder what it's like to become a lawyer or marry a busy executive or eat at a particular restaurant, my best bet is to find people who have actually done these things and see how happy they are.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing.
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I don't believe that someone who sets up an institution should be able to take out the money from the institution or pay dividends to shareholders. I am not saying that institutions should be set up for charity.
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That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.
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On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
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Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.
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Making albums is a very lonely process sometimes. Sitting around working on songs, feeling the pressure.
