Lukas Forchhammer Quotes
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I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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My look is a Modern Bohemian type thing.
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My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.
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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.
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If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Clearly, you can't believe everything you read in the press.
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I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.
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I love great lyrics, and I love the way it could shape a tune into a very unpredictable one, and I also like taking a great melody and putting lyrics into it.
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The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.
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The lyrics are the essential part in our songs.
