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You can love someone and not like them.
Morten Harket
Love
You
Someone
Like
Them
We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
Morten Harket
Music
Time
Me
Long
Long Time
Sick
Back
Interviews
Circus
Take
Instead
Performance
Became
Got
Doing
Came
Number
For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'
Morten Harket
Fans
Had
Days
Because
Issues
Were
Lot
Cool
Early
Early Days
We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.
Morten Harket
Success
Freedom
First
Experiment
Gave
Record
Like
Felt
Doing
Were
Affected
Wanted
Us
Playful
A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.
Morten Harket
Me
Result
Three
Own
Meeting
Characteristics
Point
Individual
Between
Particular
Identity
Paul
Us
One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.
Morten Harket
Good
You
Good Things
Better
Digest
Ways
See
About
Better Ways
Learn
Get
Maybe
Being
Where
Want
Away
Things
What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.
Morten Harket
Good
You
Matter
Never
Feel
Like
Look
Felt
Much
The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.
Morten Harket
First
Our
Record
Record Company
About
Excited
Like
Know
Looked
Were
Tapes
Company
My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.
Morten Harket
Morning
Face
Looking
Big
Every
Back
Hundreds
Kind
Brother
Small
Had
Football
Gordon
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Stoke
Currency
Banks
Fan
Literally
Them
Younger
Younger Brother
Then
Sucked
Cards
You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'
Morten Harket
Me
You
Remember
Videos
Back
Rise
Take
Were
Did
We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.
Morten Harket
Time
Spell
States
Would
Remain
Had
Move
Available
Act
European
Large
Chose
I'd known since I was 17 that I was going to be a star. It was a strange feeling but a very real one.
Morten Harket
Strange
Feeling
Since
Known
Real
Very
Going
Star
The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.
Morten Harket
Took
Out
Like
Because
Got
Singled
Surprise
Pin-Up
Lot
Disillusionment
Us
Hard
Found
Thing
If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.
Morten Harket
Music
You
Game
Business
Focus
Older
Tremendously
Respond
Visual
Person
Then
Pop
Pop Music
Your
I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.
Morten Harket
Myself
People
Think
Alcohol
Drink
Never
Abuse
Smoke
Same
Stopped
Ageing
Much
Body
Many
Ever
I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.
Morten Harket
People
Older
Rather
Potential
Attracted
Limitations
Than
Younger
Ages
Who
Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.
Morten Harket
Me
You
World
Mind
Somewhere
Sense
Active
Else
Out
Case
More
More Or Less
Somewhere Else
Never
Dropped
Limelight
Been
Exists
Anywhere
Less
Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.
Morten Harket
Day
Would
Perfect
Like
Although
Because
Where
Plan
Describe
We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.
Morten Harket
Music
Believe
Make
We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.
Morten Harket
Three
Pour
Type
Way
Out
Easy
Could
Almost
Goods
Became
Sell
Golden
Package
Certain
Exposure
Media
Violent
We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.
Morten Harket
Success
Failure
Made
Band
Nothing
Had
Like
Although
Felt
Left
Commercial
Commercial Success
Us
Moment
We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won.
Morten Tyldum
Take For Granted
Ourselves
Take
Remind
Granted
Now
To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.
Morten Tyldum
Time
Character
You
Try
Responsibility
Responsibilities
About
Someone
Gives
Facts
He
Like
Make
Audience
Accurate
Get
Did
Same
Same Time
Movie
Then
Who
Lived
Actually
Two
I think that the test for taking on a project is to try and list all the reasons not to do it. When you find yourself running out of reasons, and you still have to do it, it's the right thing to do.
Morten Tyldum
You
Yourself
Try
Think
Project
Right Thing
Out
Running
Find
Taking
Still
Test
List
The Right Thing
Reasons
Right
Thing
I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.
Morten Tyldum
Home
Culture
Drama
Our
Everything
TV
Seems
Had
Like
Felt
Always
Up
Very
Close
Norway
Grown
Grown-Up
British
'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies.
Morten Tyldum
Me
Hero
Got
Lot
Offered
Breakthrough
Movies
Scripts
Hollywood
Film
Internationally
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