Len Wein Quotes
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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What people are looking for are candidates and representatives that are going to work hard, tell it like it is. I'm unafraid to do things when it doesn't poll well.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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People die because they find living too painful.
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The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
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I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
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I was fascinated by mortality. Most people are, even if they don't admit it.
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Some musical directors have more chutzpah. They pick up the phone and talk people into giving. I prefer to call and say 'thank you' after the money has been contributed.
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That's where the good ideas come from: the people, not the boardroom. But you have to be willing to put in the legwork.
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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.
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Fencing is a funny sport. Competitive fencing is not really very applicable to the stage world unless you're fighting with a rapier during the Renaissance, you know?
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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
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I can't believe that I'm on the Olympic team.
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I do like to have fun. I don't need alcohol to have fun.
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There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
