Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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I like bangers and really testosterone-fueled stuff.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside to be chosen to share the Passover meal. These patriarchal manners I remember well, although there was about them an air of bourgeois benevolence which was somewhat comic.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
