Will Eisner Quotes
Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Will Eisner
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
Carl Hiaasen
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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
F. Sionil Jose
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I am stable when my private life is a success.
Don Johnson
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Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.
Emile Zola
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... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers.
Madame de Stael
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There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
William Hazlitt
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It's too bad for us "literary" enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless -- pictures tell any story more effectively than words . . . If children will read comics . . . why isn't it advisable to give them some constructive comics to read?.
William Moulton Marston
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Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.
Anthony Robbins
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If you're going for things that are really terrible ideas you have to really have all your faculties about you to get away with them without being crucified. The best rock music gets away with something, somehow, that it shouldn't be allowed to get away with.
Will Sheff
Okkervil River
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I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.
Sasha Alexander
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I know you. I know this isn't you. And even if it is, I still love you. As much as I always have. You will always be mine. I will always love you, I promised you that when you left, and it's true now.
Melissa de la Cruz
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Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.
John Sterling
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The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.
Charles August Lindbergh
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I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love or a glimpse just beyond the horizon. It was the promise of happiness, not the attainment of it, that had driven the entire engine, the folly and glory of who we are.
Will Ferguson
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Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.
Will Eisner
