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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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
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There's this idea that somebody's job could be more important than somebody else's, and to me, that's not true.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.
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I cannot tell how the truth may be;I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
