Mads Mikkelsen Quotes
In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Really smart people don't want to say stupid things, and they really don't want to be a part of a PR-engineered interview. People really do want to be smart, and they want smart questions. So, if you ask smart questions, there's no way you can't do well.
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I guess my name was gonna be Michael Vernon Wells, and I came out, and my dad saw my nose. He always says that my nose right now is the same size as it was when I was born. So he had to name me Vernon. He's got a big schnozz on him, too.
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The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
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There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.
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My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.
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In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast.
