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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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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I know it's late, I know you're wearyI know your plans don't include meStill here we are, both of us lonelyLonging for shelter from all that we seeWhy should we worry, no one will care girlLook at the stars so far awayWe've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?We've got tonight babe,Why don't you stay?
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Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
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Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.
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Sam,' said Saul fervently, 'when you talk, you know you create a world.
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What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.
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'A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.'
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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.
