Len Wein Quotes
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If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.
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Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds it as the swathing clothes enfold the infant.
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
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When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
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Asian Americans are the same as African American, Hispanic Americans, anyone: we deserve to be respected, too.
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I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
