Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson (Lykke Li) Quotes
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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I was always curious about the anxiety a person would feel when you open your mouth and you have an accent. You could have a Ph.D. or be a lawyer, but as soon as you say something, you may be diminished in the eyes of someone else.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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I lose all track of time on that level. I used to have a really good sense of time. I didn't need a clock to play, and I had a sense of when five, ten, twenty minutes had passed. Now I can only play with a clock.
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Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
