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 think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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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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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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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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I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.
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So he had locked her in the closet. Some of his people, ignorant and fearful, could not quite believe her illness was not contagious. Badger locked her away from them for her own safety. She had seen for herself how eager they were to get her out of their sight.
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I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
