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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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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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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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.
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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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It's hard no to work, so I find a way to put myself back to work. And I think it's important, in between projects, for me to sit down with who I've just become and allow her to continue to evolve and find a home inside me before I go and become somebody else. But I think I also need to learn to relax and not prepare too much, just enjoy life. I notice that my characters go out to dinner and have fun and take these great trips, but I spend so much time on their lives, I don't have much of a personal life of my own. I have to sort of remember to fill out that little notebook on me.
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I can't leave anywhere without making my bed; it's ingrained.
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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.
