Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.
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Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
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When I was 4 years old … I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.
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I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.
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By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.
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In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
