Garth Ennis Quotes
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
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I get more tired by travelling than anything.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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Well, I'm trilingual myself. I am, I know how to speak Spanish, English, obviously, and I speak pretty good Ebonics.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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I don't feel under pressure to work because I love what I do and I wanted to do the projects that came my way.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
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If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
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There's nobody telling Oprah what to do. There's no one telling David Letterman what he can and can't do. You've got to have 100 percent support from everybody who's behind the show, across the board.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
