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.

Ann Nocenti

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• At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Age
  • Young
  • Very

• 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.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.

  

  Candace Parker
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Know
  • Human
  • Contribution

• 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.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Strong
  • Running
  • City

• I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
  • Heart

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • People
  • Mind
  • Cheap

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Up
  • Law
  • Own

• I like sleeping a lot.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Lot
  • Sleeping

• The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Aim

• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Born
  • Sacrifice
  • Achievement

• There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Up
  • Art
  • Reality

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Fall
  • Cheer

• 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?

  

  Bob Seger
  • Why
  • Worry

• Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

  

  Lynn Margulis
  • Life
  • Why

• I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Art
  • Magic

• There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.

  

  Lena Headey
  • She
  • Ugly
  • Monster

• I love bunt plays. I love the idea of the bunt. I love the idea of the sacrifice. Even the word is good. Giving yourself up for the good of the whole.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Voice
  • Variety

• If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

  

  Maria Semple

• Sometimes when I travel, I like to close my eyes and imagine visiting during another era.

  

  David Ebershoff
  • Eyes
  • Travel

• 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.

  

  Ann Nocenti