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.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Know
  • Like
  • Immigrants

• More modern poetry is written than read.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Poetry
  • More
  • Modern

• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Like
  • Form
  • Complete

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Work
  • History
  • Original

• 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.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Men
  • Different
  • Want

• I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Women
  • Feel
  • Look

• 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.

  

  Caleb Johnson
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

• I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Flying
  • Own
  • Leave

• I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Country
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Zach Galligan
  • College
  • Really
  • Seriously

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bad
  • Beauty
  • Ugly

• I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Thought
  • Stars

• Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Me
  • See
  • Australia

• 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.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• 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.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Fire

• 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.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Me
  • Ready

• Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

  

  Beth Kephart
  • Music
  • Imagine
  • Bones

• I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anonymous, a figure in ambush, working from concealment, to being and working in full public view. It had an enormous effect on me. My impression was that I had suddenly walked into a wall of heavy hostile fire.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fire

• My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • She
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Joy
  • Free

• Yes, I am a good singer.

  

  Peter Tork The Monkees
  • Good

• Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Good
  • Band