Mark Millar Quotes
I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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On 'Swingtown,' I think that's when I was able to blend the character-slash-leading lady roles, and that's what I'm doing on 'Once Upon a Time' as well. She's a leading lady, but she's also this character.
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Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
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I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.
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Progress is seldom simple; it comes with costs and casualties, even challenges about whether a change represents an advance or a retreat.
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Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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Traditional local advertising is not what retailers want. They want not just for you to see an ad - they want you to come into the store, to be a repeat customer and to spread the word.
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Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won't make us happier.
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Sure-hoofed is my steed impelled by the spur;The high sprigs of alder are on thy shield;Bran art thou called, of the glittering branches.
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When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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I strongly prefer to keep my hair loose and wavy, leaving it as natural as possible.
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I consider myself an activist who governs.
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I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.
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I didn't want the headache of having a publisher reviewing everything I wrote in advance.
