"I'll have a sentence in my head that's kind of beautiful and interesting, but I'm not sure why or where it's coming from. So it's kind of funny, because when people point out patterns or themes, it's the exact opposite of my film school experience."

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Source : "Animator Don Hertzfeldt, Picturing Matchstick Men and You". Interview with Luke Y.Thompson, www.therobotsvoice.com. April 24, 2015.

Don Hertzfeldt

#Beautiful Quotes #School Quotes #Opposites Quotes

“I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.”
“I am excited about Indian Grand Prix F1 race. I will support the Force India team. I have friends like Michael Schumacher but I will support Force India because that is the Indian team and country comes first.”
“People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.”

Source : Brooks Atkinson (1951). “Once Around the Sun”
“The vitality of a culture is in its capacity to assimilate foreign influences. The culture that's defensive and closed condemns itself to decadence.”

Source : "Scourge of the new Spain" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2000.
“There is no historic incident better or more variously supported than the resurrection of Christ.”

Source : Brooke Foss Westcott (1867). “The Gospel of the Resurrection: Thoughts on Its Relation to Reason and History”, p.133
“What if all the forces of society were bent upon developing [poor] children? What if society's business were making people insteadof profits? How much of their creative beauty of spirit would remain unquenched through the years? How much of this responsiveness would follow them through life?”
“I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.”
“I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement.”

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