Scott McCloud Quotes
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
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From the pop side, people like Usher, and when they first came out, I listened to guys like K-Ci and JoJo; that '90s R&B thing really caught my ear.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I'm incredibly humbled that the leader of the modern liberty movement and strong conservative leader Congressman Ron Paul is backing our campaign.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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Yes, Heathrow is the U.K.'s busiest airport, but new runways or a new airport are not the answer. It is far better to focus on improving capacity.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Even back then, I exuded self-confidence, and that drives women crazy.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very exciting.
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I saw David Bowie in 'Labyrinth' when I was seven or eight. I told my mom I wanted a Bowie record, so we traveled to the mainland, which was, like, a three-hour trip, and I bought 'Let's Dance' and 'Tonight.' 'Let's Dance' blew my little mind. I became obsessed with it.
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One thing that was frustrating to us, always, was having to do so much press building up an album, and you're asked so many questions about, you know, is it more melodic, is it heavier, are you doing your old stuff, is it new?
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No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.
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People who are passionate about what they do reach financial comfort and wealth more often than those who are not. That argues for doing one of two things. Finding your passion and pursuing it. Or becoming passionate about what you're already pursuing.
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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
