Mark Waid Quotes
A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
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I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Today, we face another major potential attack on our country. This attack is not a hijacked plane or bomb, although that remains a threat; rather, it is a cyber attack.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
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I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.
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I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
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Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.
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Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
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A lot of the world turns into checklists for me when I'm on the road. Like, OK, this person's alive, this person's fed, this person's good. Soundcheck is done. Everything becomes a checklist except for the actual show.
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People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.
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We all agreed that philosophically, it was not OK, and ethically, it wasn't OK. We're going to take the word 'divert' totally out of our vocabulary.
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When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see. All you can ever do is work as hard as you can on it and make sure you're doing your job.
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It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.
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A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.
