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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide"

"When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things"

"Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy"

"Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?"