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I enjoy taking jobs that make fun of me - or me as Princess Leia, or me as the writer, or whatever, as some idea.

Enjoy Fun Idea Jobs
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It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Any Believed Could Curious
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One of the first principles of perseverance is to know when to stop persevering.
One Principles Perseverance Stop
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I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Am Celebrities Hollywood I Am
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It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Age Deaths Diseases Laugh
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In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

America Brad Brad Pitt Covers
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Deplorable Joy Life Sleep
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My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Attention Audience Blood Competition
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

Agree Always Ask Courage
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I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is.

Appearance Because Business Easy
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Against Bags Business Current
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We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

Accomplishment Beauty Everyone Good
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

Between Clothes Connection Dress
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

Anonymity Completeness Like Often
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Fiction Her Money Must
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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Homesick Places Never Known
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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Mind Richly Tapestry Distilled
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Live People Create Made
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book

Makes Improvisation Human Existence
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The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Theme Humiliation Square Root
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Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.

Coming Down Hardest Climbing
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
Heart Lonely Hunter
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A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lilies of the swamp.
Mediocre Person Object Love
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

Owing Mute Give Qualities
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
Once Live Great Torture
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
Value Quality Love Determined
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Heart Small Children Delicate
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.

Who You Are Have
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I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree
Like Cat Climbing Wrong
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Passion is more important than justice.

Passion Important Justice
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Because Been Course Crimes
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Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Best Solitary Sometimes Voice
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Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Back Cause Church Coming
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What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

Back Bring Dreary Even
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I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

About Batman Going Older
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coats. So that's what I write about.

About Artist Book Car
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It is more raw and unfettered and I'm more likely going into something you could call extreme cartooning. There's a lot of that in the course of 'Holy Terror.' There are interludes where there are pictures - cartoon pictures - of modern figures and they are all wordless. It's up to readers to put the words in.

Call Cartoon Cartooning Could
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Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Cartoonists Come Dirty Draw
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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

Accused Anybody Being Convince
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I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

Back Been Boss Brat
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'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.

America Clowns False Fed
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3,000 of my neighbors were murdered. My country was, utterly unprovoked, savagely attacked. I wish all those responsible for the atrocity of 9/11 to burn in Hell.

Atrocity Attacked Burn Country
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When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

Beautiful Beautiful Woman Brush Hand
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Book Books Call Come
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The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.

After Always Dark Definitely
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Amazing Beauty Capturing Comics
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

Resentment Precious Flower Poverty
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I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

Do Have Home Homesick
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