Garrison Wynn Quotes
People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I started with the Target Company in 1993 when their Christmas theme that year was 'It's A Wonderful Life,' and they reunited the actors who played the Bailey kids. So we went all over and really had a blast getting the love from all of the fans and thought, 'Whoopty-doo, there's something going on here.'
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Being gay immediately placed me outside the values of the society I was growing up in. Apartheid was a very patriarchal system, so its assumptions seemed foreign to me from the outset. I've always had the advantage of alienation.
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I don't like to play the victim.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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I'm funny at home too, but not deliberately. My wife is usually laughing at me rather than with me.
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The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
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If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.
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There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always had cable, and it was always on.
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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... This violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people.
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I attacked with great resolution the editorial matter, and, reading it from beginning to end without understanding a syllable, conceived the possibility of its being Chinese, and so re-read it from the end to the beginning, but with no more satisfactory result.
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Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
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I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.
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I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.
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One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw it as the writer takes to write it. In my career I've had to spend a week drawing something that a writer has thrown out in an hour. And there's nothing worse than having to work on something that no previous thought has gone into.
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People buy-into what they can understand quickly. If it takes you a long time to make your point, most people think you don't have one!
