Quotes by Danish authors

"Every human life is a fairy tale written by the finger of God"

"When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards"

"This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named"

"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart"

"When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice"

"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"

"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"

"The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder"

"When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body"

"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"

"I was born in high heels and I've worn them ever since"

"I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take"

"There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography"

"Kate is going to come back, she is going to be super-strong again. Everybody is going to want her again because she is that kind of person. She is very professional and beautiful and she is going to be around forever"

"I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without"

"We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized"

"We did it. Make no mistake: We have written history. Today there's a change of guards in Denmark"

"We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark"

"This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more"

"Of course we have to address the deficit if we win"

"I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark"

"I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well"

"Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare"

"We are not jumping on the austerity bandwagon. A healthy economy is by far the most important thing for Social Democrats"

"For young girls, whom I meet a lot when I travel around the country, it will be a big thing. It will really show them that there's no post in Denmark that a girl can't aspire to"

"Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership"

"The Kyoto treaty has an estimated cost of between US$150 and $350 billion a year, starting in 2010"

"On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world"

"A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph"

"So it's mainly a question of helping the Third World overcome the effects of global warming"