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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In working to end violence against women and children, we need to ensure that men are centrally involved. Men need to organise themselves in a sustained campaign against gender-based violence.
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Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to be squared with the First Amendment. Under that test, juries can censor, suppress, and punish what they don't like, provided the matter relates to "sexual impurity" or has a tendency "to excite lustful thoughts." This is community censorship in one of its worst forms. It creates a regime where, in the battle between the literati and the Philistines, the Philistines are certain to win.
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We have food all around us all the time, and if we haven't eaten for three hours, we think we're starving. You're not starving - human beings can go for 30 days without food.
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Life - life - let there be life! Better a thousand times the roaring hours When wave and wind, Like the Arch-Murderer in flight From the Avenger at his heel, Storm through the desolate fastnesses And wild waste places of the world!
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That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.
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I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!
