“If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge, ' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.”
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We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
