Kurt Busiek Quotes
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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I can do whatever I want.
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All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
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If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.
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London goes beyond any boundary or convention. It contains every wish or word ever spoken, every action or gesture ever made, every harsh or noble statement ever expressed. It is illimitable. It is Infinite London.
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I think, when I'm 73, I'm going to be getting softer, writing Hallmark cards, losing my teeth.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.
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I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.
