Agnes Obel Quotes
With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
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I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
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What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
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It doesn't matter what age you are, an effective song will move you.
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I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.
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With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
