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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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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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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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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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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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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The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.
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All I do is scream your name.
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There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
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As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
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I think one of the reasons 'Borgen' has such a following is because the characters are quite positive people.
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We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
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'Why won't anyone ever answer my questions?''Because you never stop asking them and especially because you keep asking them even when it's clear that nobody knows the answers.''Well, how do I know that they don't know the answer unless I ask?'
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Voltaire once said: 'Not to be occupied and not to exist are one and the same thing for a man.' With those few words he captured the essence of a purpose in life: to work, to create, to excel, and to be concerned about the world and its affairs.
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I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.
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I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
