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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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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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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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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It's hard not to be the straight man when Zach Galifianakis is there. He's such a delightfully bizarre creature. Everything he does is so surprising. He's such a live wire. It's just so exciting to watch.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
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When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
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Using animals for entertainment is big business, plain and simple.
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That was the fatal mistake of the false Protestant ethic which diluted Christian love into patriotism, loyalty to friends, and industriousness, which in short, perverted the better righteousness into justitia civilis.
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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.
