Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes
In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are following topics and tweets themselves. People are following more key words and concepts and more ideas and acting on those rather than individuals or organizations.
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Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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Thank God for the potholes on memory lane.
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Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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Some people are tied to five hundred words a day, six days a week. I'm a hesitater.
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When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it?
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In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!
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O magnet-South! O glistening perfumed South! My South! O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear to me!
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A blockhead, bit by fleas, put out the light,And chuckling cried, 'Now you can't see to bite.'
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During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.
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In many senses, 'Borgen' was a very democratic show. I was always invited to hear the writers' thoughts for the next episodes and allowed to comment on them.
