Dave Gibbons Quotes
One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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I like to wear shoes that are cool but also practical. The same goes for bags. Your bag is a big deal in New York. You can't just carry around a little clutch, because you don't have a car or anywhere to stash things during the day, so you need to carry your whole life with you. That's why I like big, chunky bags with lots of compartments.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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Depression comes back over time in about 90 percent of people on antidepressants. Studies show that relapses are far less common when people are treated with psychotherapy.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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I drive my own horses in a race. And I always have.
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Games take years to make, and it's important that when we launch, it can't just be a great launch catalog and then a desert for a really long time. To be honest, for a lot of developers, they'd rather not be competing at launch with all this other software.
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I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do with it.
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I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
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If you break things down to goodies and baddies, the baddies are always a bit more alluring in fiction, and that's true from a narrative point of view. But I wanted to write a novel about real life, and real life is a bit more nuanced than that.
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I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.
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I don't think it's fair to compare Dick Cheney to Vader - it's unfair to Vader.
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One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just that - it was breaking new ground.
