Lukas Forchhammer Quotes

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

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• On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Father
  • Fantastic
  • Brothers

• Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Why
  • More
  • Soccer

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Enemy
  • Your
  • Deceive

• The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Poor
  • Crime

• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Real
  • Want
  • Yourself

• In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • World
  • Real
  • Book

• I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Serious
  • Enjoy

• Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Children
  • Think

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Long
  • Man

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Me
  • Walking
  • Bored

• It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Live
  • Want

• As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Gay
  • My Life

• I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Love
  • Woman
  • For Her

• Always be original. Never duplicate what you've seen another actor do. Be true to the character that you've been given, and the rest will come easy.

  

  Lee Tamahori
  • Character
  • True
  • Rest

• Since I am coming to that holy room, Where, with thy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be made thy music; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think here before.

  

  John Donne
  • Music
  • Door

• I’m a feminist so I believe in inhabiting contradictions. I believe in making contradictions productive, not in having to choose one side or the other side. As opposed to choosing either or, choosing both.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Believe
  • Feminist
  • Contradiction

• I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • World
  • Value
  • Leaving

• I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

  

  Lukas Forchhammer Lukas Graham
  • World
  • Powerful