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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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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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.
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What happens when I'm making a new album is I try not to listen to music that's coming out at the time. I turn off the radio and don't read any music blogs, because I tend to get really distracted by new music. When I hear it, I think, "Should I be doing that?"
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It’s rather a strong check to one’s self-complacency to find how much of one’s right doing depends on not being in want of money.
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I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
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Leadership is all about unlocking the potential in others.
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Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
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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.
