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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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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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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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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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.
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The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.
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The civil war in Syria is the worst humanitarian tragedy of our generation and one that our government, and the world, is failing to deal with adequately.
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I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.
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The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break.
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Typically, I work with the script and the director for awhile before, just to make sure we're on the same page.
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Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.
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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.
