Quotes by Danish authors

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

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

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

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

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

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

"The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive"

"The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty"

"Obviously any group that has to have funding also needs to get attention to their issues"

"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view"