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 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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Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.
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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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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103.
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I come from a part of the world - raised in a part of the world where you're born a Democrat, baptized a Democrat.
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My hair - it's baby thin and feathery and drives me crazy no matter what I do with it. It's weird because you see people with thicker hair that just kind of stays put, but if I'm in any sort of weather, I look like Bill Murray in 'Kingpin' when it starts to all come unleashed.
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I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.
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In the juniors, you are kind of a star, but just because you are a good junior doesn't mean you will be a good pro.
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I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
