Manesh Gupta Quotes & Sayings

To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence. It looks to me very much like a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite 'universes' presented by DC or Marvel Comics. I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times. — Alan Moore

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual. — Justin Vernon

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries. — Mark Zuckerberg

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel. — Art Alexakis

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak. — Eliot Weinberger

I went to comprehensive school in North London and left without any qualifications [diploma]. And I was doing bits of acting and improv in a drama club in the evenings. Then I discovered you didn't need qualifications to go to art school, you just needed a body of work. — Joe Wright

I think fantasy is best described as a kind of fiction that evokes wonder, mystery or magic, a sense of possibility beyond the ordinary world in which we live, and yet which reflects and comments upon that known world. — Kate Forsyth

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everybody hurts some days. It's okay to be afraid. Everybody hurts, everybody screams. Everybody feels this way. — Avril Lavigne

We may talk of the best means of doing good; but, after all, the greatest difficulty lies in doing it in a proper spirit. Speak- the truth in love, "in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves" - with the meekness and gentleness of Christ. — Asahel Nettleton