Mark Waid Quotes

Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

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• I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Why
  • True
  • Free

• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hero
  • Last
  • Every

• How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Think
  • Numbers

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • Think
  • Australia

• Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Music
  • Songs
  • Playing

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Woman

• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Love

• And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

  

  Jack Nance
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Now

• I've always had great faith in people.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Nature
  • Culture
  • Movies

• Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Father
  • Career
  • Marriage

• It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Seeing
  • Behind

• For me, when I grew up playing music, I played music in church and people were shouting and having a big time, and church wasn't something where it was subdued. If you played something, you brought it to church with you.

  

  Randy Owen
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If I never competed again, it wouldn't bother me. I don't care.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin

• The whole of this studio is bonded; that is to say, we are not officially in Japan per se, but rather, in what is considered for these purposes an adjunct of the customs shed at Narita airport. Officially, we are not here because we are pornographic. It's a rather curious situation.

  

  Peter Greenaway

• I've been extremely lucky to be a part of these really great shows that have gotten so much attention.

  

  Eric Ladin
  • Great
  • Attention

• Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.

  

  Mark Waid