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Quotes by Danish Authors
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
"No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical."
"This was all very new to me and I did not want to ruin his film! So we worked hard on that basis of confidence that is needed to collaborate comfortably."
"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."
"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
"I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order."
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart."
"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
"I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both."
"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
"I am very much aware of the visual side of things. I do a lot of photography. I often take Polaroids of things that strike me as visually interesting, just to remember them and perhaps use later."
"What's the message in Metallica? There is no message, but if there was a message, it really should be look within yourself, don't listen to me, don't listen to James, don't listen to anybody, look within yourself for the answers."
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."
"In modelling, there is no point in trying to prove you have a brain, so why even bother? I'd sooner save the energy for something more meaningful."
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
"However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious."
"Clearly, I reject the view that there is one way that is right for everyone and for every problem."
"On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not."
"Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are."
"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."
"Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question."
"The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster."
"Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness."
"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without."
"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues."
"The grounding in natural sciences which I obtained in the course of my medical studies, including preliminary examinations in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry, was to become decisive in determining the trend of my literary work."
"For many years I was engaged in journalism, writing articles and chronicles for the daily press without ever joining the staff of any newspaper."
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes."
"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
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