Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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My father had very little formal education.
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We are like petri dishes, where we can innovate, but we want to do it carefully and thoughtfully.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.
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Spain used to be very individualistic in its sporting activities. Now we are showing we are pretty good in teams - that is an improvement.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there.
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.
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I never like to talk about my own politics, but whether you're left, right or center, the 2008 race was definitely good drama.
