Len Wein Quotes
I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you.
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The popular notion is that Americans are addicted to fossil fuels, but I find that's not true; most people would be happy to power their lives with anything else.
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There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
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My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
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I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.
