Mark Waid Quotes
I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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Just try to focus one game at a time, not worry about points or anything like that. Worry about playing the right way and see what comes of it.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
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In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.
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Athletic skills are acquired over a long period of time and after countless hours of practice.
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As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
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One of the big myths about philanthropy is that it's all about donating funds for a cause. I like to look at it quite differently. Philanthropy is about 'giving' - not just in monetary terms but also in non-monetary aspects, like time, ideas, or being a volunteer. Donating money is just a small part of philanthropy.
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I'm quite an insecure person and need reassuring all the time.
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I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy. I can't get into minute details.
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I like to be aggressive. I like to swing the bat.
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Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.
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Billy Barnes signed me and got me my first role in an interracial love story filmed in Atlanta called 'Together For Days' with Clifton Davis. My mother thinks it was my best work. You cannot find a copy of it.
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I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.
