34 Danish Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 'A Royal Affair' I had to learn to act like a queen and learned Danish. It's so much different to act in another language. It's the nuances in the words. Alicia Vikander

Queen Words Language Danish Had Like Learn Learned Another Affair Different Much Act Nuances Royal

I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast. Christopher Buckley

Remember Breakfast Sweet Our Flying Danish Kids Laughing Collecting Dawn Over Dock Dead Coming Fish Off Up Bananas Fry Deck Them Us Strait Cook Bringing Fat

Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. Clementine Paddleford

Beer National Danish Weakness Drink Another

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. David Mamet

Good You People Speak Long Whatever Translation Others Danish See Pretty Pretty Good Russian Guys Poetry Write Spoke Polemic Like Know Because Without Chekhov Understand May Norwegian Many Play Basically Plays

I hope, then, that every one who sees 'The Danish Girl' might be galvanized themselves to lead more authentic lives. How much lovelier would the world be then? Eddie Redmayne

Hope World Girl Every Danish Would More Sees Lead How How Much Authentic Might Themselves Then Much Who Lives

We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. Fredrik Bajer

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. Georg Brandes

Joke Danish He Understand Does Who

With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. Jay Inslee

Family Technology World Lost Energy Action Danish Jobs Rather Clean Clean Energy Lead Takes Since New Wage Tap Germans Than American Order Energy Bill Japanese Ingenuity Bill Manufacturing Manufacturing Jobs Bold Millions Playing Need

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder. Jenny Zhang

Poet Late Danish Poem Alphabet Also Text Wonder Activist

Danish is a different language, even though Danish people understand Swedes, and very few Swedes understand Danish. Joel Kinnaman

People Language Few Danish Though Understand Very Different Different Language Even

I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder. Kazuo Ishiguro

Book Words Will Three Translation Believe Spend Way Those Danish Fact Write Journalists Over Days Know Leaning Go Denmark Survive Intensely Being Want Wherever Informs To Survive Shoulder Now

In Bengaluru, I'm Danish's sister, and in Mumbai, he's Kubbra's brother! Kubra Sait

Sister Danish Brother He Mumbai

Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way. Mads Mikkelsen

Way Danish Spreading Fantastic Film

There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.' Margrethe II of Denmark

Beautiful Age Thought Goodness Way Danish Find Admire Could Absolutely Like Course Always Often Golden Golden Age Century If I Could Landscape Paint Fascinating Painters Whom Early

I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours. Margrethe Vestager

Politics You Danish Rumours Like Learned Very Much European

I might have some Danish lessons sometimes. Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Sometimes Danish Some Might Lessons

I do love my full English breakfast, but not every day. What I can't do without first thing in the morning, though, is my Danish pastry or a croissant - anything with a laminated dough, enriched with butter to make it beautifully golden and flaky. Paul Hollywood

When my career in hotels was taking off in the Nineties, I went to work as a head baker in Cyprus, where I was making Danish pastries every day. I can remember that the head chef was always on my back to put more seasonal fruits in with the creme patissiere. I'd even make them with rhubarb. Paul Hollywood

Work Day Every Day Remember Every Back Nineties Danish More Put Head Taking Hotels Baker Make Chef Always Making Off Where Fruits Them Cyprus Even Career

The Danish filmmakers are a unique breed of filmmakers, with the Dogme films and Lars von Trier. Pierce Brosnan

Films Danish Von Breed Unique Filmmakers

'Selfie' is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron. Richard Quest

Cause Word President President Barack Obama Took Danish Minister Nelson Obama David David Cameron Prime Prime Minister Became Cameron Mandela Barack Barack Obama Funeral

When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics. Sidse Babett Knudsen

Success Politics Danish Would Follow About Outside Had No-One Idea Because Making Denmark Expected Any Appeal Started Basically

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