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.
Quotes to Explore
-
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
-
My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.
-
More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
-
I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.
-
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.
-
No person is just one particular emotion.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
-
Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
-
If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
-
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.
-
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
-
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
-
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
-
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
-
'Don't Look Now' is a masterpiece. I think it's the best-edited movie of all time. I adore it.
-
And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.
-
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio.
-
It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls.
-
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.
