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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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 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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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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No, I don’t wish I knew Heaven was like the picture in my Great Divorce, because, if we knew that, we should know it was no better. The good things even of this world are far too good ever to be reached by imagination. Even the common orange, you know: no one could have imagined it before he tasted it. How much less Heaven.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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There is simply not enough money available to support a system in which the lion's share of expenditures is devoted to acute care, with virtually nothing being spent on preventive medicine, i.e. health care.
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I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.
