Scott Snyder Quotes
I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant.
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My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.
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When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
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Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
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The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
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I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
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Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.
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A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.
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Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
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One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.
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These will be fabulous investments and will make millions of more people rich.
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Israel will not tolerate a situation in which Iran has effective control of non-conventional weapons that can be used directly against the state of Israel.
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One doesn’t have to operate with great malice to do great harm. The absence of empathy and understanding are sufficient. In fact, a man convinced of his virtue even in the midst of his vice is the worst kind of man.
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I really wanted to make sure that if we set Duke up, that he's set up the right way and he's his own hero for the right reasons.
