Scott McCloud Quotes
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.
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I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
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I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
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I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.
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I was in the canon When Absalom was slain. I was in Llys Don Before the birth of Gwydion.
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So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.It took me too long to realize that I don't take good picturesCuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.
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My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them.
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I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.
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Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
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It had become boring to write: 'I like Clare Balding'. To say: 'I don't like Clare Balding' is much more newsworthy.
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I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.
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Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.
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I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.
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Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
