Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

Brian K. Vaughan

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• We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Sports
  • Easy
  • Rights

• I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Success
  • Stopped
  • Boston

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Mind

• I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Hands

• I never feel there's anything I can't do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Anything

• When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • People
  • Like
  • Just

• My number one goal is to love, support and be there for my son.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Control
  • Company
  • Stock

• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
  • Broken

• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.

  

  Iain Banks
  • You
  • Understand
  • Find

• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • School
  • Remember
  • Violence

• True expression is hard when performing opera. The problem is that opera relies on the dramatic context of the piece. It can be interpreted and represented, but there are guidelines; there is a vocabulary within the pieces that you must know objectively and reflect.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • True
  • Know
  • Problem

• Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Men
  • Different
  • Style

• I'm an athlete, so I can get up one day and run and it wouldn't bother me. I don't get the time because I work for long hours every day. Being constantly on the move itself helps me stay fit. I don't go to a gym. I use the stairs, not the lift. I'm not into fitness, but I feel I should start, as it's healthy.

  

  Genelia D'Souza
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Work
  • Book
  • Library

• Tom Cruise is one of the most wonderful, kind, and generous men that I've ever met.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Men

• Not a word of my writing has ever been changed by another person's hands, and I don't think many screenwriters can say that.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Writing