Fever Ray (Karin Elisabeth Dreijer) Quotes
Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
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Acting is a business and a political act and a craft, but I also feel like it's a service - specifically, for a military audience.
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Iraq has, in effect, one export of any consequence. That's oil.
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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.
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No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
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It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
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Even before I joined journalism, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. Tintin was an early inspiration.
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I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.
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I don't stay in my trailer. I like to sit in video village, probably to the annoyance of some producers and directors, because they really love to talk about actors, and they can't in front of me.
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Voice is my instrument.
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Many times, the Senate talks of things and never gets anything through.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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My dream job has already happened.
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When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams - when I was, say, 14, 15 - you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
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Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.
