Pilou Asbaek Quotes
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If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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I am really easy to scare, and I don't enjoy watching spooky films.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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I'm still proud of what I've done, even if it hasn't been the biggest song on the radio or hasn't gone to number one.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.
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'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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And I also thought that Richard Nixon was the greatest political education we have ever had, but it looks like we need to relearn them again.
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I want to get better as an actor, to keep trying to work harder, trying to discover something different. In some ways, it's a pretty frightening experience. But normally, I do tend to walk against fear and hope that I'll be able to survive.
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An individual can have a point of view. He is entitled to that.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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Acting is such a feminine process: you have to become the desire of others. I'm OK with this, and so is Gerard Depardieu. In many ways, he's very feminine.
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
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We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football.
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My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.
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I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.
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Overnight, I became a public figure.
