Len Wein Quotes

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Len Wein

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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

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• 'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.

  

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• Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

  

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• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

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• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

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• I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

  

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• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

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• You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

  

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• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

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  • Think
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• It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.

  

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• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

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• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

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• Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

  

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• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

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• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

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• There is one Physician, of flesh and of spirit, originate and unoriginate, God in man, true Life in death, son of Mary and son of God, first passible and then impassible: Jesus Christ our Lord.

  

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• You are the music while the music lasts.

  

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• Dreams and reality are united in our imagination. The artist possesses the means to create only after he has effective command of his faculty of empathy which he must develop simultaneously with his imaginative capacity.

  

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• My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

  

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• There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

  

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• I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people's childhoods. When I was writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I had a blast talking on the phone to my younger brother, Patrick, remembering all of the things that happened to our family when we were growing up.

  

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• I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

  

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

  

  Len Wein
  • Age
  • Dad
  • Kid