Gail Simone Quotes

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.

Gail Simone

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • High
  • Words
  • Actions

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• Kids are disorganized.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Kids
  • Disorganized

• Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Will
  • Result
  • Judged

• When I started acting, everyone told me to get a backup in case it didn't work out; if there was something else I could have done, I would have done it. Acting should never be your chosen path if you can help it.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Work
  • Done
  • Help

• For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Professional

• I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.

  

  Ty Cobb
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Different

• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Reason
  • Facts
  • Mathematics

• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Wisdom
  • Product
  • Attempt

• I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.

  

  Jenni Rivera
  • People

• Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.

  

  Ariel Garten
  • Technology
  • Risk
  • Growth

• I just thought at Wimbledon I was very nervous.

  

  Garbine Muguruza

• I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • World
  • Real
  • She

• And don't consult anyone's opinions but your own.

  

  Persius

• The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Hilarious

• We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.

  

  Graham Nash
  • Money
  • Today

• I'm a nice guy, but I like to get into trouble.

  

  Miguel
  • Guy
  • Nice

• I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend!

  

  Joan Crawford
  • Believe

• The Greek people deserve an economy that is not burdened forever by a heavy bureaucracy and a bloated public sector.

  

  Charles Dallara
  • People
  • Forever
  • Greek

• The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Circumstances

• Opportunity is not a lengthy visitor.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Opportunity
  • Visitors
  • Lengthy

• There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.

  

  Gail Simone
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