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.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Money
  • Help
  • Mother

• In Australia, kids play in American accents.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Kids
  • American
  • Play

• 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.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Career
  • Thought

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Die
  • Sense

• '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.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • War
  • Political
  • Culture

• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • House
  • Stand
  • Divided

• 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.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • World
  • Music
  • School

• I love what I do.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Love
  • I Love

• When I first ran for Congress in 1998, people counted me out.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • First
  • Congress

• 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.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • People
  • Look
  • Variety

• 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.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Business
  • Value

• The interesting thing with fashion is that it's really a massive daydream.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Interesting
  • Fashion
  • Thing

• 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.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Businesses
  • Board
  • Recession

• 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.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Death

• If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Human
  • Sensitive

• Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • World
  • Friend

• What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and even though she was a well-to-do person, I found that her treatment costs were crippling.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • She
  • Friend
  • Cancer

• Grief is like mending a knee. You can mend the knee and make it function, but the knee never actually heals.

  

  Jason Reynolds
  • Grief

• In your 40s, you kind of know how things are likely to go, and you're better at saying, 'You know what? That just doesn't suit me...' I remember thinking in my 30s, 'I should go to Burning Man. I could be a Burning Man person.' And in my 40s, I'm like, 'You know what? I'm never going to go to Burning Man.'

  

  Pamela Druckerman
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• I want to direct in Denmark. I married a writer; my best friend's a writer, so I always wanted to be a writer.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
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