Mark Waid Quotes
You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
Quotes to Explore
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I studied Morse code.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace.
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I'll only pick up my guitar if something is knocking on the door. Once the melodies have sort of been bothering me for a time, then I pick up my guitar and try to find them. But only if they want to be found.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.
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Pair up in threes.
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To be honest, when I was growing up - I think it's because of Kate Winslet and 'Titanic' - I always wanted to do period.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
