Mark Millar Quotes

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Mark Millar

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• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Working
  • Camera
  • Pictures

• I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Year

• I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.

  

  Usher
  • Passion
  • Baby
  • Pregnancy

• Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
  • Down
  • Sides

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• We, all of us, could do a much better job of evoking what someone has called the universal principle of human altruism: the urge in us all to help others who are in danger.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Job
  • Help
  • Better

• And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Energy
  • Ideas
  • Talking

• I was just another girl.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Girl
  • Just
  • Another

• People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Me
  • Fashion

• Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Past
  • Theatre

• Between Going and Staying

  

  Octavio Paz

• When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Society
  • Free
  • Question

• Nutbeem influenced a little by the lunar cycle. Had a touch of werewolf. At full moon he burst, talked himself dry, took exercise in the form of dancing and fighting at the Starlight Lounge, then slowly fell back to contemplation.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Fighting
  • Exercise
  • Moon

• Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Live
  • Real

• I've been an actor since I was a kid.

  

  Derek Magyar

• Before 'Power,' I got down to $86 in my bank account. I don't know if I feel successful as much as I feel relieved because for the first time in my life I'm not scared about how I'm going to pay my rent, and I can start to put money away.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• I don't look like my high school self anymore. I feel like I look more like an adult now.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • School
  • High

• On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Energy
  • Health
  • Innovation

• I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Stills
  • Half

• What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

  

  Billy Sheehan
  • People
  • Up

• Now then, if we were to go the lowest road and plaster my face on the bottle of oil and vinegar dressing just to line our pockets, it would sink. But to go the low road to get to the high road- shameless exploitation for charity, for the common good- now that's an idea worth the hustle, a reciprocal trade agreement.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Ideas
  • Charity
  • Common

• I'd love to do something else for Avatar after this.

  

  Mark Millar