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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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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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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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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He was a very strict father, which in a way has helped me to become who I am today. He never pampered me, as he wanted me to live a normal life. No film magazines were allowed at home, and we weren't allowed to watch any movies.
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Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.
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People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
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Truth is life's most precious commodity.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than 100 yards from the school.'
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Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.
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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.
