Jens Lekman Quotes
I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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From the age of 14, I wanted to be a director.
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I've always been a sharing person.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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'I can’t imagine,' said Dupre, 'a better way to unnerve people than to tell them there’s no cause for alarm.'
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A manager is a guide. He takes a group of people and says, 'With you I can make us a success; I can show you the way.'
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I have mood swings, but I'm sure people in England have that, too. Me and my friends, we're just a bunch of happy idiots.
