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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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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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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Voice is my instrument.
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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
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The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
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What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?
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I am running on the fact that I am doing a good job listening to people.
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I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.
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If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.
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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.
