Paul Dini Quotes

What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

Paul Dini

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• I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did 'Forum.' It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn't familiar with my stage work.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Work
  • Movie

• We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• Retirement's the most wonderful thing. I get to enjoy all the things I never stopped to notice on the way up. After an extraordinary life, it's time to enjoy my retirement.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• My uncles and my aunts were outstanding. There's just no other way to say it.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Way
  • Say
  • Uncles

• You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Red
  • Storm
  • Weapons

• I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Great
  • Think
  • Film

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Universe
  • Old
  • Theory

• Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Living

• Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Easy
  • Determination

• Heu quantum scelus est in viscera viscera condiingestoque avidum pinguescere corpore corpusalteriusque animans animantis vivere leto!Scilicet in tantis opibus, quas, optima matrum,terra parit, nil te nisi tristia mandere saevovulnera dente iuvat ritusque referre Cyclopum,nec, nisi perdideris alium, placare voraciset male morati poteris ieiunia ventris!

  

  Ovid

• Ein Künstler ist, wer sein Centrum in sich selbst hat. Wem es da fehlt, der muss einen bestimmten Führer und Mittler ausser sich wählen.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • Music
  • Value
  • Chicago

• Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

  

  Derek Kilmer
  • People
  • Why
  • Hope

• Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche.

  

  Alexis Bledel

• The currencies of science are discoveries and ideas; the rewards are the excitement of going where nobody has been before and, if one is inclined to such things, the kudos of peer acclaim, plus funds to do more research.

  

  John Sulston
  • Science

• And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don't.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • World
  • Think
  • Control

• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Women
  • She
  • Character

• The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.

  

  Andrew Cecil Bradley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Death

• I've never been desperate to please my father.

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Please
  • Desperate
  • My Father

• What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Hero
  • Myth
  • Helps