August Krogh Quotes
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
-
I never pursued being 'famous.'
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
-
I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
-
I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
-
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-
I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
-
I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
-
Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
-
It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
-
I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
-
I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
-
Home is where one starts from.
-
I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
-
I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
-
It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
-
This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.
-
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
-
For 'Game of Thrones,' I realized immediately that it was about the characters.
-
We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.
-
When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.
-
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the amount of the Prize will greatly simplify my task and provide me with much valuable help in my work.
