"Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears."

-- Paavo Haavikko

#Over You Quotes #Ears Quotes #Benches Quotes

“Iâ€™ve read a lot of scripts and Iâ€™m really luck to be able to play a woman whoâ€™s funny and can be charming and has a mischievous side to her as well. Iâ€™m really lucky.”
“I'm kind of an old-fashioned guy.”
“Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”
“The people of the two nations [French and English] must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and race. It is God's own method of producing an entente cordiale, and no other plan is worth a farthing.”
“A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.”
“I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.”

Source : Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
“Filmmakers don't work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don't last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust.”

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