Scott McCloud Quotes
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
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New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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Truly charismatic people, in my experience, don't come along very often.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I have a lot of common sense. I know what needs to be done and how to approach it. I have an ability to work with people on large enterprises.
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The best quick tip in golf is to focus on your rhythm and balance.
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One thing that used to worry me is the fact that it seemed like Harvard was this big scary thing where I would have to spend all my time studying just to get in. But getting to go to both campuses of Harvard and Oxford and getting to meet some of the professors was absolutely amazing.
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You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
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The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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Pat Robertson: He's going to have a second term. He's going to win. Romney will win the election.Benny Hinn: You believe that.Pat Robertson: I absolutely believe that.Benny Hinn: What makes you believe that?Pat Robertson: Cause the Lord told me.
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Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.
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To be looked at from the other side of his art-work 'The Glass' with one eye, close to, for almost an hour.
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The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?
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It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.
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I think the mix of narrative and analysis that the 'New Yorker' requires is a perfect expression of what my parents each gave me.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.
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Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
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I'm one of those people where, the more responsibility I have, the better I become. The more I rise up to it. The less responsibility I have, the more I can easily devolve.
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The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
