Bille August Quotes
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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One of my favourite exhibitions is called 'Do It,' which I co-curated with the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 21 years ago.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The Flash could do everything twice as fast. Except you never saw him think twice as fast or speak twice as fast. Could he do math faster than the other superheroes? Could he compute the tip for the bill twice as fast?
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A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.
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There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
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When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.
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My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
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The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.
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It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake.
