Kurt Busiek Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I try to play like I did when I was a young boy playing in my garden. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good, but I try to always make sure I give my best to help the team, even if I am not having the best game myself.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.
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As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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My own experience is that there is no real effort in life that is not done better under encouragement and approval of our fellow men.
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Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face.
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I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.
