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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.


Baltasar Kormakur

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BALTASAR GRACIAN Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
BALTASAR GRACIAN The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN Be extraordinary in your excellence, if you like, but be ordinary in your display of it.
BALTASAR GRACIáN The right kind of leisure is better than the wrong kind of work.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
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BALTASAR GRACIáN The happy are an exception who enjoy innocently their simple happiness.
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BALTASAR GRACIAN A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No,...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Begin with another's to end with your own.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Evil report carries further than any applause.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
BALTASAR GRACIAN The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
BALTASAR GRACIAN He that communicates his secret to another makes himself that other's slave.
BALTASAR GRACIAN We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your ...
BALTASAR GRACIáN Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
BALTASAR GRACIáN Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
BALTASAR GRACIáN It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to al...
BALTASAR GRACIÁN The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the w...
JOHANN BALTASAR SCHUPPIUS (SCHUPPE) Le premier signe de l'ignorance, c'est de présumer que l'on sait.
BALTASAR GRACIAN Y MORALES