Mark Waid Quotes
There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I think it's probably a good lesson for other people to follow - to not always make the decision that's popular for others, but to do what you feel like is the right thing to do.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.
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My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets.
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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I never imagined I would be in a film with Steve Martin. I was a little star struck, because I grew up watching his movies.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
