Jens Lekman Quotes

Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate, almost religious experience. I'm very careful with who gets to cut my hair.

Jens Lekman

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MomentExperienceMeHairKnowWhy

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Jennifer Egan

MeEndShortLookThreeSquad

It was at the department store where people got away from provincialism.

Stanley Marcus

PeopleWhereAwayGotStore

Somebody - and I'm going to guess it was Hitchcock - once said that everyone has their reasons. If you remember that, as a writer, you'll write better than average villains.

Rod Lurie

BetterRememberYouSaidWrite

'Cue for Treason,' by Geoffrey Trease, radicalized my young girl brain and made me want to be a gender-bending, sonnet-writing anarchist. It really made something roar to life inside of me.

Miriam Toews

LifeGirlMeBrainYoungWant

Post-apocalyptic novels tell you that in the future there is some great war. I would tell you that most cops say that it's going on right now.

Lisa Gardner

FutureGreatWarYouNowSay

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

Jean Cocteau

JoyMeLimitsSpeakStairsPlay

I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you - my father taught me.

Jason Momoa

FamilyFatherMeYouHalfSomething

At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

Delta Burke

New YorkYouthStartThoughtEndGo

If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy.

Christina Romer

HealthEnergyThinkCareProblem

Playing at the Opry, for me, it has such a history. It feels sort of like a coming-out party as a country artist. To know your heroes have played here is kind of crazy.

Aubrie Sellers

HistoryMeCrazyArtistPartyKnow

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Shan Sa

AthensChinaPoetAncientWould

I'm genuine and I'm available. I want people to be at their best. I want them to love and be loved to their fullest ability. My friends call me their relationship nanny, so we have a good time working through problems. Now, I don't claim to be an expert, but I am a woman who has been through everything.

Niecy Nash

LoveGoodRelationshipTimeBestMe

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