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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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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The Republican Party - that was the end of the Republican Party. What Pete Wilson did with the xenophobia and the negative attitude, all this sort of anti-crime backlash.
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It is a mistake to travel in the hope of solving one's problems. One merely transports them and is thus forced to endure them among strangers.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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One of the most important decisions you'll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.
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But that is the thing about miracles: it is perception that determines them as such, not facts.
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If the world is not safe for babies you are never going to get a democracy worth having.
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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.
