Erland Josephson Quotes
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew up in St. Helens, Oregon and we weren't allowed to watch a lot of TV.
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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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I love Chicago. I wouldn't be where I am now, and I certainly wouldn't have the confidence that I hope that I project, if I'd not lived in Chicago.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
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Quality is pride of workmanship.
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Every time I wake up, I see myself like somebody beat me up.
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When I started out, I was definitely writing about experiences that I hadn't had yet. The songs were just based on my influences, songwriters that had written songs before me and that were more experienced and 20, 30 years older than me.
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I don't like the way Uncle Junior dresses. He loves it.
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General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
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Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
