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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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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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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Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.
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I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.
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I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.
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Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.
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The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.
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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.
