Ann Nocenti Quotes
I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.
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At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
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There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.
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Justice will win - because might does not make right, and the only path to lasting peace is when people know that their dignity will be respected and that their rights will be upheld. And citizens, like nations, will never settle for a world where the big are allowed to bully the small. Sooner or later, they fight back.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
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If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears…
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Scientific inquiry starts with observation. The more one can see, the more one can investigate.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
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I think the best collaborations in comics come from a lot of talks with the artists where you are finding out what they want to draw, what kind of villains they want to do.
