Len Wein Quotes
Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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My mother is the sort of a person who has no boundaries and no filter. She also has a big ego, but it's a very unique one. And I grew up with lots of artists in an environment where conformity and the norm were totally not what anybody was after.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of music: It knows no boundaries, cultures or class.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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For the longest time, my older brother told me he was teaching me self-defense, but now that I'm grown up, I realize he was just practicing his martial arts on me.
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You have to be resilient.
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I just want to keep improving, to keep getting better.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I'm much more comfortable in a meritocracy and in reward for good work as opposed to a political environment, where I feel like all of that can be confused.
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I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.
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Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title.
