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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.

Hurt Guy Other Guy Want
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Some of my friends became gangsters. You became a gangster depending upon how fast you wanted a suit. Gangsters weren't the stereotypes you see in the movies. I knew the real ones, and the real ones were out for big money.

Real Stereotype Gangster Big
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Nobody ever wrote a story for me. I told in every story what was really inside my gut, and it came out that way. My stories began to get noticed because the average reader could associate with them.

Wrote Story What Really
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Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own.

Kind Brands Brand New Comics
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I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

Hurt Party People Conflict
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I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.

Fighting Guy Trying Care
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I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Perfection Style Storytelling Type
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A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.

Hurt Powerful Men Style
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My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.

Style Ability Anatomy Feel
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My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.

Evil Lovable Made Monsters
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I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

Sport Guy Other Guys
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I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

People Forever Done Patient
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I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.

High Respect Pratt Institute Done My Best
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I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.
Admired Anybody Could Make
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I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.

Independent Men Feeling Kind
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I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.

Trying Mediocre Resent Interfere
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Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Kind Admire Field Performer
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I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

Ego Selling Thorough Not
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I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.

School Rainy Day One Day Wonder
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My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

Believe Writing Style I Believe
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I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

Fighting Long Kind Enjoy
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I didn't resolve the questions... and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, 'The questions have been terrific.'

Tomorrow Resolve End Entertaining
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Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

Mother Father Men Shopping
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You’re not a nobody, so don’t be afraid to knock on doors.

Nobody Afraid Knock Doors
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I’m at a place where nothing worries me, nothing bothers me, nothing scares me than losing myself. I am at a place of peace.

Place Nothing worries Scares me
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Not every time, party! Let’s always remember to praise God; at home, in church, in your car, through happy times, through trying times. He’s there always there for us.

Party Remember Praise God Home
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If my film makes one, just one person satisfied, then I’ll feel I’ve done my job.
My film Makes one Satisfied Done
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Take every opportunity you get; you never know which one will help you accomplish your goal.

Every opportunity Get Accomplish Goal
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All women want to be loved and treated right!

All women Loved Treated right
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Don’t stop! Don’t beat yourself when mistakes are made. Stay deaf to the world! Watch yourself make magic!

Don't stop Beat yourself World
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Certain things go for better things to come. Let go.
Certain things Go Better Come
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I am the master of my life, my emotions, and thoughts. I will not allow others to control nor influence my mind or emotions. Wisdom has thought me to be accountable for the way I engage with the world.

Master My life Emotions Influence
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We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Question Story logic Powerful God
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A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

A man Lives life Meets Licks it
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
Time Fire Burn
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It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting.

Become Crusade Demonstrate Violent
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The human race is a remarkable creature, one with great potential, and I hope that 'Star Trek' has helped to show us what we can be if we believe in ourselves and our abilities.

Human race Remarkable creature Potential Hope
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Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Normal television Limit Science fiction
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

About American American Society Being
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

Fingers Me Simply Thinking
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Become Core Critics Crucial
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I do not understand how you can associate abortion with an idea of hedonism or the good life.

Abortion Associate Good Good Life
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In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Abortion Morally Person Physically
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Bringing a child into the world makes sense only if this child is wanted consciously and freely by its two parents. If it is not, then it is simply animal and criminal behavior.

Animal Behavior Bringing Child
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Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered that it had helped me enormously with writing fiction. It's the one thing that can save me from becoming an academic writer.

Academic Becoming Cursed Discovered
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don't. Some writers write licking their finger.

Biting Divide Finger Licking
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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