Mark Waid Quotes
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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Umm... I don't judge my relationship with Puff or Bad Boy according to other people or past artists. At the end of the day, you are in charge of your career, and you can't depend on no man to do anything for you. I've learned to judge relationships with a person on myself and that person, not what they have done with previous people.
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I am alone with my sin. This is why they rule. The Peerless Scarred know that dark deeds are carried through life. They cannot be outrun. They must be worn if one is to rule. This is their first lesson. Or was it that the weak do not deserve life?
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We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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An injured Zlatan is a pretty serious thing for any team.
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Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.