"History is still in large measure poetry to me."

-- Jacob Burckhardt

#History Quotes #Stills Quotes

“There are damn few great writers and I'm not one of them. While I could afford to I played with words. When I could no longer afford that I wrote for money.”
“If I have an hour in a city, I go to vintage stores first because it's so much cooler to find a piece that is unique. I love the thought of some girl having worn it before and living her life in it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.”
“When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.”
“Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.”
“An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
“I'm good at keeping secrets, but if it's not something super serious I usually tell people not to tell me because I'll tell someone else.”

Source : "Q&A – Steven Yeun (Glenn)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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