Garth Ennis Quotes
It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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My favorite movie is 'Iron Man.' I tell people that I think it's just as good as 'Dark Knight,' if not better, and people tell me I'm crazy. I really like 'Iron Man.'
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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Music is about the performance.
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I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.
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Patents have a place in medical science - for new inventions that advance the state of knowledge.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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I make a lot of soups, and I love stews. My mother's a big foodie. She went to culinary school in New Orleans and has an oyster-artichoke soup recipe that has no cream in it but it tastes so creamy.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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Politicians love power. I love freedom. That is why I am not a politician.
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Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
