Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I'm signing up for.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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The world's major metropolitan cities are more or less the same.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway.
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Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.
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That's what you're looking for as a writer when you're working. You're looking for your own freedom. To lose your inhibition to delve deep into your memory and experiences and life and then to find the prose that will persuade the reader.
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No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.
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Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.
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I just make crap up more than anything else.
