Jens Lekman Quotes
I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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It's the federal government's job to secure the border.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I have always been interested in religion, especially in forms of ecstatic religion, where people are touched directly by the Spirit and go completely out of themselves.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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It's something that I love about this business and that scares me about this business, but in a good way. You just never know what's going to happen. And things change constantly. But there's always opportunities for new work, so you just have to enjoy the job that you're on while you're on it because it doesn't last forever.
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More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society.
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I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.
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I think it's healthy that people that work in a creative field look for inspiration in a different creative field.
