Bille August Quotes
He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
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I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side.
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An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
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I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.
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To kill yourself for earning a salary is not worth it.
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible. The flesh will tell you that God is against you, that you have gone too far and that He is no longer interested in you. But faith defies the flesh. It contradicts Satan’s lies. It rises up against defeat, gloom, and despair and finds hope in God.
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I think that everybody who writes believes that their work has some kind of use-value, for someone, that there's some need for it, some person or group of people out there has demanded that these words come into being. I think that you do the work for these people. You hope that you can make a living at it. Whatever your ambitions and needs are in that regard, your only real requirement is to try and dig as deeply as you can dig to make sense of the meaning of human existence.
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He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.
