Kurt Busiek Quotes
I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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The American people need to tell their member of Congress that we need a strong defense to protect us and to prevent wars. We can't get away with simply leading from behind and gutting our defenses.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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It's not very often that I like new bands.
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I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!
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All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles.
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If there was no Black Sabbath, I could still possibly be a morning newspaper delivery boy. No fun.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.
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I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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President Obama has admitted that Medicare is on an unsustainable course and that no amount of tax increases can fix it.
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I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.
