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 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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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
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What people don't understand is that it wasn't about Dean or Eddie, it was about whether or not I was in the right place.
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The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
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If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.
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I definitely have a lot of Korean-American fans, which is amazing.
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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.
