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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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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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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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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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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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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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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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.
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I'm not looking to do 'Half Nelson' next, but to play anything that's a little more complex is really fun.
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Today and always, there will be an obligation to pass on to the new generation the tradition of liberal scholarship - scientific or in the humanities - and to bring the understanding of things and human actions to everyone.
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It's pretty challenging for large funds to spend the time and energy necessary to get a meaningful return when most of the wins coming out are perhaps below $100 million exits and the ones above are very few and far between.
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Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
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Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
