Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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Must we wait for selection to solve the problems of overpopulation, exhaustion of resources, pollution of the environment and a nuclear holocaust, or can we take explicit steps to make our future more secure? In the latter case, must we not transcend selection?
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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Democracy presumes that we're all created equal; competition proves we are not, or else every race would end in a tie.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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I just don't drink alcohol. I never have; I never will.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I like to be who I am.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself.
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I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.
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Using what you have always enhances what's to come no matter if it's an album, song, artwork or whatever.
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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.
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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
