Mark Waid Quotes
I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
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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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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.
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A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
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I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
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I am just tired of writing about heroes that we're dragging down to our level, and I want to write about heroes that we want to be.
