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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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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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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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.
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The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
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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.
