Jens Lekman Quotes
I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've been the happiest.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I'm constantly trying to keep people guessing as to what I'm doing, and I will spend enormous amounts of time looking at manuscripts and asking questions, and people will say, 'I know what his next book is about.'
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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When I was single, I was down to $100 of power a year.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I like Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. I have some great Balenciaga jackets and I'm shoe crazy.
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My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
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I feel like the few times in my life when I really felt like I love my own story is when I've been the happiest.
