"Any time gone by was better."

-- Jorge Manrique

#History Quotes #Gone Quotes #Times Gone By Quotes

“That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.”
“The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.”
“Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger.”
“Those who are not conversant in works of art are often surprised at the high value set by connoisseurs on drawings which appear careless, and in every respect unfinished; but they are truly valuable... they give the idea of a whole.”
“The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.”
“Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.”
“Nietzsche, who you don't spend too much time with after the age of seventeen, did have that one great line about "he who stares into the abyss must know that the abyss also stares into him" and I never really understood that until my friend got killed and you really get your head around the idea of what horror means. It's a truly awful thing, to really, kind of have that understanding of things and when you really peer into that.”
“By now you know what I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary. I got no rise as such out of it... for the most part. But the figuring it out, the challenge -- the stalking and doing it right, successfully -- that excited me a lot. The greater the odds against me, the more juice I got out of it.”

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