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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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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When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand, nor by the undirected accumulation of practical facts on the other, but rather by a motivated iteration between theory and practice.
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You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.
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The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
