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Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. They're my biggest heroes. I love everything about Leonard Cohen: his lyrics and his voice. He seems like a really clever man, and Bob Dylan does as well. He's just really cool.
Aurora
Love
Man
Heroes
Clever
Lyrics
Everything
About
Seems
Voice
He
Like
Clever Man
Well
Does
His
Just
Dylan
Biggest
Bob
Bob Dylan
Really
Cool
It's very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it's very nice.
Aurora
People
Nice
Unnatural
Someone
Course
Very
So Many People
Many
I just wanted to be a songwriter. I did really not like the sound of my own voice.
Aurora
Own
My Own
Voice
Songwriter
Like
Sound
Did
Just
Wanted
Really
I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.
Aurora
Music
Listening
Inside
Able
Rather
Outside
Like
Than
Being
I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.
Aurora
Sense
Only
Emotional
Songs
Well
Makes
Person
Sensitive
If I see a mountain, I just pick up and hike it.
Aurora
See
Pick
Hike
Up
Mountain
Just
I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
Aurora
Sad
Great
Angry
Me
Remember
School
Kid
Impact
Someone
Classroom
Could
Very
Sensitive
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
Aurora
Home
First
Lyrics
Those
Melody
Kind
Write
Instrument
Make
Close
Get
Any
Then
Gojira is my favorite band of all time; they're lovely, I've seen them live two times. I also love Mastodon and the Refused as well.
Aurora
Love
Time
Seen
Band
Live
Favorite
All-Time
Also
Well
Times
Refused
Lovely
Them
Two
I really want a pet, and I really love animals.
Aurora
Love
Pet
Animals
Want
Really
Oh, I've always been very... Emotional. 'Hypersensitive' is what they call it, I think.
Aurora
Think
Emotional
Call
Always
Been
Very
Oh
I can't read the newspaper without crying. I'm easily affected by horrible events, you see.
Aurora
You
Events
Easily
See
Horrible
Crying
Read
Without
Affected
Newspaper
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.
Aurora
Sad
Hope
Me
People
Dark
Light
Important
Kind
Some
Songs
Make
Very
Quite
Want
Even
Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better... I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.
Aurora
Hope
Me
People
Better
Fans
Picture
Calm
Tell
Through
Songs
Obviously
Get
Listen
Often
Being
Where
Place
Many
Therefore
Things
Bring
My music seems to have a bigger mission than I have, which is very soothing but also very strange because people see more in me than I see, which can be terrifying.
Aurora
Music
Me
Strange
People
See
Seems
More
Soothing
Mission
Also
Because
Terrifying
Very
Than
Bigger
Which
The greater the burden a man takes upon his shoulders, the stronger he must be to carry it. No words are unmentionable, no action or horror beyond powers of description, if one is equal to them.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Man
Words
Burden
Stronger
Action
Carry
Must
Horror
No Words
He
Takes
Beyond
Equal
Powers
Greater
His
Them
Shoulders
Description
The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Work
Freedom
Spiritual
History
Word
Every
Liable
Draw
Examples
More
Purpose
Could
Write
Writer
Writers
Countless
His
Very
The History Of
Literature
Show
Who
Display
Reject
Shakespeare's plays were a great Teutonic Valhalla with brilliant sunshine at times and violent tempests at others. The world to him was a battlefield, but his sense of poetic justice, his sublime faith in life and its infinite resources, guided the battles.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Life
Faith
Great
Justice
World
Sunshine
Brilliant
Sense
Others
Resources
Guided
Battlefield
Battles
Shakespeare
Poetic
Him
Were
His
Sublime
Times
Infinite
Violent
Plays
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Life
Art
Peace
Tempest
Smallest
Look
Uneasy
Meaningful
Found
A people numerically large may attain to ways of thought and enterprise that no political censure can reduce to a minimum; but under narrower conditions, it may easily come about that the whole people will fall asleep.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
People
Political
Will
Thought
Fall
Ways
Easily
Enterprise
Minimum
About
Attain
Come
Reduce
Narrower
Conditions
May
Censure
Asleep
Large
Whole
There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Result
Men
Think
Christianity
Some
Morality
Only
Attacking
Investigate
Investigation
Dogma
Historical
May
Who
Origin
Growth
Honest
Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Great
People
Will
Made
Christianity
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Some
Without
Always
Dogma
Years
Essence
Endure
After
Us
Apparatus
Who
Whole
God's supreme word to us is life; our highest worship of Him is love for the living.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Life
Love
God
Word
Living
Our
Worship
Highest
Supreme
Him
Us
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations.
Christian Lous Lange
Political
Society
Ought
Relations
Mutual
Particular
Concept
How
Human
Nations
Social
Certain
Organize
Organized
Theory
Human Society
Internationalism
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality.
Christian Lous Lange
Time
Reality
Political
Become
Every
Every Time
Emerge
More
More Or Less
Economic
Attempt
Step
Step Forward
Takes
Development
Forces
Which
Forms
Plane
Create
Less
Forward
Technical
Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
Christian Lous Lange
Immediately
Rapidly
Only
Individual
Splits
Almost
New
Parts
Female
Male
Germ
Egg
Cell
Dies
Human
Human Body
Which
Created
Creating
Body
Organs
Union
Grows
Two
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