Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
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Many a writer has spent his life putting his favorite words in all the places they belong; but how many, like E.E. Cummings, have spent their lives putting their favorite words in all the places they don’t belong, thus discovering many effects that no one had even realized were possible?
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.
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I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.
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We cannot afford a dead stop on all of the progress we have made under President Obama in saving our planet from the devastating consequences of climate change.
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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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My writing process hasn't changed - it's is the same whether I'm working on a Y.A. novel or, as now, a new novel for adults. A lot of reading, a lot of research if the subject warrants it, a lot of sticky notes and scraps of paper - and get to work.
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It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.
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It's a miracle that any job comes together.
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When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.
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As life goes on I'm starting to learn more and more about responsibility.
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
