Scott McCloud Quotes
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Quotes to Explore
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.
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A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.
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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.
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It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
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Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.
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I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
