Lena Andersson Quotes
Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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In a lot of ways, I wasn't a normal teenager.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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Personally I don't think solving corruption is such a big problem.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
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Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
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In a normal time, I don't think economic policy makes a large difference one way or another. But in times of crisis it makes all the difference in the world.
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Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
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Something about writing needs a sort of distance not to be involved as a writer - just something that makes it easier to write. You have to make choices all the time - what to tell and what not to tell.
