Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
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In late 2003, the Bush administration reversed a long-standing policy requiring agents to destroy their files on innocent American citizens, companies and residents when investigations closed.
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I'm like, 'Yeah, I could afford braces, but why should I change myself to be what everybody else wants me to be when I'm OK with who I am and I'm happy with who I am?'
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When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been revised and worked over 88 times. I'll just turn to the middle of the book, to the middle of a chapter, and just read a random page and I'll know right away whether this is the real deal or not.
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I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.
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When you create those characters that people love and care about and put them in a dark hallway, already the audience is on edge, and they feel empathy for that character. Then it's up to me to decide what jumps out in that hallway. So I think laying that foundation of strong characters and strong story is the most important thing in a horror film.
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Satire is used for political purposes all the time, but obviously there's a time and a place. I think in the current climate, it can be very difficult to speak your mind, but sometimes, I believe, we're all in danger and I think this discussion needs to be widened.
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All great novels are great fairy tales.
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Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise.
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I've always thought of fantasy as a genre of best-case scenarios, and horror as a genre of worst-case scenarios.
