Brian Michael Bendis Quotes
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
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Broadway is really my life.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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I don't like everybody who I see on TV.
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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
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I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.
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One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
