Morten Harket Quotes
We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
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There is no evidence to show that prohibition has ever had its intended impact. Of course, just as banning beef has reduced beef consumption, banning alcohol will lead to reduced alcohol consumption. But, there appears to be little or no correlation between, say, domestic violence or household impoverishment and prohibition.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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I never wanted to be on an exclusively Christian label.
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We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
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It's easy to get into habitual ways of drawing things and I'm as much guilty of this as anyone else - after all, it's part of what makes a recognisable personal style. But I always try and think a lot about each image beforehand, try and envisage the best way of approaching it.
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We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.
