Dave Gibbons Quotes
To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
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I am no politician.
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Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
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I should be the Hunger Strikee.
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An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
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To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the real world into a consistent code. If you look at Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko, their drawings look nothing like the real world, but they are internally consistent. In terms of a comic book it can work just fine.
