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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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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I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.
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My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies.
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Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it.
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You have to be open to the energy. If you can open your heart to the energy, that great love energy, of this entire universe, good things will happen to you. BUT, you've gotta believe. You've gotta believe in the goodness.
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Give up the tyranny of female charm.
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I think there are many who would like to be saved but have been presented the faulty idea that repentance is turning from sin and therefore they are convinced that they cannot be saved. Oh, if we would only make salvation plain and explain to men that we are not saved by doing anything; rather we are saved by trusting in what Jesus has already done.
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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.
