Margrethe Vestager Quotes
We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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When I was a kid, I was super shy.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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To me, acting is acting... I'd be happy working on a street corner in a mime troupe.
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
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Authorities in Rabat believe that if we create a Moroccan character, even in a work of fiction, we are responsible for the image of Moroccan women.
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We would completely delegitimise what we are doing if we allow politics to interfere with our work.
