Scott McCloud Quotes
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
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The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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My dad makes food with very few delicate flavours.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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The issue of doing an adaptation of a book is the theater of the mind, and so you always face that.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
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My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.
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In my hometown of Chicago, I'm kind of a medium deal.
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I never understood what the big deal is about privacy.
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My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
