"It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past."

-- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#Past Quotes #Hands Quotes #Errors Quotes

“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.”
“People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.”
“What are you boys doing?â€ she asks, as if weâ€™re still little kids messing around. â€œArguinâ€™,â€ Carlos says matter-of-factly.”
“Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.”

Source : John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.277, Simon and Schuster
“Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.”
“Having Down syndrome means nothing to me, I'm special like everyone else. I do not let people judge me for having Down syndrome. The important thing is how I feel about myself. On the inside, I feel beautiful.”

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