Ann Nocenti Quotes
Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.
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I was a tomboy.
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I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding why our governments are making the decisions that they are?
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I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
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Sinatra slowly found a way to allow tenderness into the performance while remaining manly. He perfected the role of the Tender Tough Guy and passed it on to several generations of Americans. Before him, that archetype did not exist in American popular culture.
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Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.
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Desperately seeking something is not what attracts it to us. When we dwell, in deep peace and kindness, whatever would add to our happiness just flows to our door.
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I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.
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Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.
