Jens Lekman Quotes
Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.
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The music I do is food... that will be your dinner.
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Try to be as good a listener as you are a speaker. Don't just put the emphasis on saying things. Listen.
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The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.
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Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
