Pilou Asbaek Quotes
I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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I love what I do.
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When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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What we need to do is run our business. We need to come up with a value prop that is so compelling that customers have to go for it.
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The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.
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I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston.
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.
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We cannot and we will not negotiate with terrorists. We have nothing but contempt for them. To conciliate differences with these people without them changing their objectives is to condemn our Republic to ultimate strangulation and death.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.
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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
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I lost a very dear friend who lived with AIDS for about 17 years. Rejecting early treatments that were iffy, he thought he saved himself. I really miss him a lot.
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[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.
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I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.
