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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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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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 understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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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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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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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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To combat the growing devastation caused by the crimes associated with illegal immigration.
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Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.
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I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.
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Every day, somebody has a song they want you to hear, and you're stupid if you don't listen to it because you never know what you may find.
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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.
