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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I am an Indian to the core.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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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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I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.
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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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It's nice to be in a creative world that's kind of isolated, but you can get led astray down some pathway while you're recording that you might not like later. And there's a lot of time to get in your own head and stay there.
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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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The idea of taking classic American stories and reinterpreting them for a time and place is not just commercially viable. These stories also carry a sensual nature of what it meant to be an American, and they deserve to be reinterpreted.
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God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
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I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me to try improv with Gotham City Improv.
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I'll say it's not easy to keep yourself between 100 and 112 pounds every day of every month of the year. Especially for women. I'm a woman; once a month I retain water and I crave chocolate and sugar. Those are the toughest days.
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If anything, I want to be seen as a singer-songwriter rather than a pop artist.
