Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
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We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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If I don't have room for an item, I put it in warehouses.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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I wake up every morning and I feel like I'm juggling glass balls. I live in Los Angeles, my business is run out of London, and most evenings I'm cuddled up in front of Skype, in my dressing gown, speaking with my studio in London. I travel a lot, my team travel a lot, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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I've always challenged myself and the people who work with me to take new approaches to traditional business challenges, to push the envelope and constantly ask whether our sacred cows are still producing great milk.
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I live on the water. I live in a neighborhood that's consummately connected to my neighbors. I bump into them every day. I can bike to work.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.
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Contemporary art and the Communist Party are an impossible situation. It’s like oil and water-they can never mix.
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I do think one success of Northern Europe, which the United States came from, was its willingness to accept innovation in business practices like Adam Smith and the whole Enlightenment. It essentially made the merchant class free instead of controlled by the king and aristocracy. That was essential.
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I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.
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One of the main things I know about O.J. Simpson is that he is a compulsive talker. So if I were to ask him one question, I would get 45 minutes on the history of the case. It would be irrelevant what I would ask him - he would just start talking.
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I don't believe in bad and good, I believe we are all a mix of both.
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Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much.
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Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.
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We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.
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The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you.
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I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.
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It's TV shows like BUFFY and ANGEL that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.
