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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Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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I think there are a lot of companies that are staying private longer. Much more of their growth is happening while they are on the private side. So their valuations are hitting $1 billion while they are still private more often.
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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.
