"The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us."

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Source : Source: screenrant.com

Adam Frank

#Thinking Quotes #Superhero Quotes #Zombie Quotes

“I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?”

Source : "Song: "Power Circle" ("Self Made Vol. 2")". 2012.
“Sometimes you just have to sit down a lot and make sure everyone's cool. If someone has an issue, you make sure they don't keep it inside. That's been the model of the Simple Plan.”
“In the pale light of daybreak the gravestones looked like so many white sails of boats anchored in a busy harbor. They were sails that would never again be filled with wind, sails that, too long unused and heavily drooping, had been turned into stone just as they were. The boats' anchors had been thrust so deeply into the dark earth that they could never again be raised.”
“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”
“I've often used the extremes in my work to comment on the mainstream. I think that sometimes a subject that I'm working on, like popular culture, is so present all around us that they're hard to see. It's like: How do you see the air you breathe? How do you see how it affects you?”
“Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.”
“All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.”

Source : "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.
“I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned”

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