Mark Waid Quotes
I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
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How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I was scared. I mean, it was scary. But part of that's because it was so personal and real to me.
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I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.
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At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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I'm absolutely convinced that the very small global warming we are experiencing is the result of natural causes. It's a cyclical phenomenon in the history of the Earth. The role of man is very small, almost negligible.
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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I'm (Eugene) probably goin' to be promoted, and it'll be more than twenty bucks you'll get then, you just wait. You'll have enough to live on, Ma (Rose-Anna). You won't have to scrape all your life, the rest of us'll see to that.
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Karaoke bars are devil worship!
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Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it.
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Don’t overestimate your familiarity with technologies you barely understand. It could be your undoing.
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As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
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There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
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I don't have small goals; I just have goals, and it's, one, stay healthy; and two, have a very successful career.
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I know how to win big matches.
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When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.
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Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
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The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.
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Friendship? Yes Please.
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I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.
