"I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Kimberly Peirce

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Different Quotes

“You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.”

Source : "The Neverending Story" by Michael End, translated by Ralph Manheim, (Ch. II), 1983.
“As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.”
“Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.”
“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.”
“The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.”

Source : Louis Agassiz (1873). “Geological Sketches”, p.234
“Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.”
“I have never been much of a painter.”

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