Mark Waid Quotes
There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
Quotes to Explore
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.
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One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the novel can do.
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Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.
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I think auditions are set up for failure because they're not really the set experience. There's no time to develop the character. You're just looking at someone... if someone's really good in an audition, sometimes they're not good in the film. It's something you learn when you're doing short films. It's the same way that some people do well at taking tests and some people don't. But when you're on a long-term filmmaking process it's a completely different feeling.
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Irvine is such a safe, stable, planned community, and I'm a person who has a lot of inner longing for drama and romance. So I think in some way the structure of Irvine made me more creative because I had these boundaries, and I thought outside them.
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A hole in the ice is dangerous only to those who go skating.
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There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.
