Len Wein Quotes
I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're going to maintain true authorities over a subordinate organization, you have to have some control over policy formulation of that organization and also the resources that are applied to it.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also the place where an 8-ft. cactus, the century plant, produces a huge yellow flower every great once in a while, like a robot proffering a bouquet. After the plant flowers, it dies.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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It's just that I've always been a tomboy, so being thrown into the hot nerd category and the glam thing has been very interesting for me to swallow.
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In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?
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Today, with computer-generated visual effects, everything is possible. So we've seen everything. If it can be imagined, it can be put on screen.
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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.
