Scott McCloud Quotes
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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In the face of postwar austerity, hundreds of brides-to-be across the country sent Princess Elizabeth their clothing coupons so that she could have the dress of their dreams.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.
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Free Tibet before free trade.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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You can raise a good child in a single-parent family, but it's much more difficult.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.
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What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.
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My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
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My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
