Mark Waid Quotes
The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.
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Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
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My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.
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One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
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It was all about the ring. That's where you got your brains shook and the money took.
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The beauty of Captain America is that you didn't have to come from a distant planet, like Superman, or he didn't have to be born into a family of billionaires like Bruce Wayne. He happened to be in the right place at the right time, and someone gave him a magic potion, and he grew muscles and became a superhero.
