Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I've played every instrument you could possibly think of for 10 minutes. So I'm mediocre at everything. I can play drums, guitar, piano, violin, saxophone, clarinet, flute... Just not well.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Once winter sets in I must have the sun and warmth. I need to be in the sun - I'm a true island baby.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
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Don't plan too hard, because something much better might be out there.
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One of the problems with the fiasco of suburbia is that it destroyed our understanding of the distinction between the country and the town, between the urban and the rural. They're not the same thing.
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In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.
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When I'm not shooting, I don't wear much makeup. I just moisturize and maybe put on a berry-colored balm on my lips and cheeks, and then mascara - that's it. My face and hair gets abused every single day, so I try take it easy on off days.
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I always felt more comfortable with a full face of makeup.
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For much of my adult life, I believed, inaccurately, that I knew the story of Charles Dickens's 'A Christmas Carol' - that I remembered it from childhood.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
