Walter Scott Quotes
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I've always wanted to play a Marvel baddie. I'm not sure I fit the mold, though. Like a powerful, extraordinary woman. Somebody with superpowers would be really fun, but I'm not sure how many middle-aged women they have in Marvel.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
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Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Conscience doth make cowards of us all.
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Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
