Alexander Skarsgard Quotes

It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

Alexander Skarsgard

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• There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Sister

• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Memory

• And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • You
  • Ever

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• It became my solace. Because it's the only thing structured in my life right now. Training is sort of a therapy session, I guess.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Life
  • Training
  • My Life

• I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Try
  • Preparation
  • Beyond

• One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Party

• In life, we all struggle and strive to make progress. When will you know you've reached success? A billion dollars is a good sign, but there's a better one - humility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Answers
  • Computers

• Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Active
  • Worldwide
  • Iranians

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Children
  • May

• The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.

  

  Eric Clapton Cream
  • Moments
  • Suicide

• Who killed John Keats?'I,' says the Quarterly,So savage and Tartarly;''Twas one of my feats.'

  

  Lord Byron
  • Savage

• Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Surfing

• No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Earth
  • Words

• I feel it's most important to keep it real and enjoy each moment, you know, take advantage of every opportunity life provides, because who knows what tomorrow may bring

  

  C. R. Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• There comes the time at every Passover seder when someone will open a door to let in the prophet Elijah. At that moment, something like a spell invariably descends over the celebrants, and everyone stares into the doorway, trying to make out the quiet movements of the prophet as he glides his way in and takes the empty seat among us.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Door

• The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.

  

  Carlos Andres Gomez
  • You
  • Enough
  • Recognize

• It's difficult to get to know a Swede. But once you do, you're in.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard