Ann Nocenti Quotes
I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.
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When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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My parents were just really weird and protective about the music I listened to. Whenever I wanted to buy an album, they would have to buy it first and listen to it and let me know if I could have it.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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I hate big models.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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There are a lot of things you can do with a law degree background, but I just didn't have a passion for it.
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I see a New York where there is no barrier to the God-given potential of every New Yorker. I see a New York where everyone who wants a good job can find one. I see a New York where the people can believe in a grounded government again.
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I love the American openness and use of language; I just don't know how to be that way.
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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing - and that thing was story.
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A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all...much of the magic of the heather beds would vanish if, as we bent over them, there was no chance that we might hear a faint rustle among the blossoms, and find ourselves staring into a pair of sleepy green eyes.
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I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.
