Pilou Asbaek Quotes
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
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Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest payday - that's what I want.
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If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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My mom sent me to regular high school because she wanted me to have that experience and not say that I missed out, but I didn't like it at all. I'm more comfortable in the world that I'm in, I grew up in it so when I get around normal kids in regular high school I don't know what to do. I feel more secure in an adult environment.
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It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
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No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.
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If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
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I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish.
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I want to keep pushing those boundaries of acting.
