Mark Millar Quotes
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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I don't like allegories.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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Shaw's relations with women have always been gallant, coy even. The number he has surrendered to physically have been few – perhaps not half a dozen in all – the first man to have cut a path through the theatre and left it strewn with virgins.
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As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have during your growing up years starts disappearing when you start demonstrating success.
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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
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Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff.
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White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.
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The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
