Mark Waid Quotes
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I've obviously used fans - I wouldn't say all my life, because we couldn't afford them when I was young, but from my 20s and onwards we've had to use fans. And I've always loathed them. Everything about them. The way you adjust them, getting them at the angle you want. Carrying them. Cleaning them. The danger of putting your finger in them.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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People always get confused. They talk about coaches. The reality is, these coaches and managers that everybody thinks are in so much control, they work for us. They're our employees.
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How many great problems have gone unsolved because men didn't know enough, or have enough faith in the creative process and in themselves, to let go for the whole mind to work at it?
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My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
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I'd still love to work with John Romita Sr. at some point. That's the dream.
