Alexander Skarsgard Quotes
The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We are a very big and vast Government, and naturally, every ministry is becoming bigger and bigger. It becomes, therefore, essential that there should be proper coordination.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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You need to prepare the child you have for the world that exists.
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I hope I never have to face that feeling of missing and sending my country or team out of a competition.
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You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.
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I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.
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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
