Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.
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I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.
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I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.
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I'll wake up and I'll train the next day. It's been like that since I started. I think I train harder, harder than the hardest workers in the off-season.
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A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.
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What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.
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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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I don't have to jump up and smile just because TV wants me to.
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Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.
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We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
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It just feels like I'm on the right path musically and I'm in the right mindset to continue out my mission in music because I'm not putting myself in a box.
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I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
