Sidse Babett Knudsen Quotes
When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
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Nobody wants to give up good players.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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It takes strength to be kind; it's not a weakness.
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It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon, when he was king of all England, and so reigned, that there was a mighty duke in Cornwall that held war against him long time. And the duke was called the duke of Tintagil.
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A hung jury, however, suggests that any decline was not overwhelming; and, in common with most historians, I believe the empire was still very powerful at the end of the fourth century. Unfortunately, a series of disasters was soon to change things.
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Courage is not a quality one normally associates with mathematicians. Yet it should apply to people who work in their attics in secret for seven years without cease on a problem that has eluded the greatest mathematical minds since first proposed in 1637.
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When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
