Mark Waid Quotes
I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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I always make a decision, even if it's the wrong one. I hate being confused.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.
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I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.
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When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.
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In my ideal writing environment, I'd be surrounded by nice visual art in a room with a window and high ceilings. The window would have to give me natural light.
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I think there's a moral imperative when you're writing fictional heroes to give characters who somehow give us something to aspire to as opposed to dragging them down to our level.
