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Kurt Busiek Quotes

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

Kurt Busiek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1960

Topics

Character Name Mission Three Out Up

I just take it day by day, and I hope one day I can say I feel good - not just be cancer free, but just feel good. I'm just living every day to the fullest: I enjoy myself, I have fun, and I pray every day that it doesn't come back.

Jim Kelly

Good Hope Myself Day Fun Feel Good

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Joe Lieberman

Education Children President Never

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

John Coltrane

Space Small Start Think Lose Go

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Robert Sean Leonard

Character Time Interesting Down True

I don't like to give out advice. I make suggestions when I get to know somebody a little bit, but I don't know about advice.

Matt Dillon

Advice Know Out Little Give Get

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Tony Curtis

Money Government School Me Acting

In high school, my two older brothers ran track. They'd come home sweaty and mud-covered, and I could tell they enjoyed it. So I started running - I ran a mile down the road and back again - and I haven't stopped since.

Mika Brzezinski

Home School Road High School Down

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, but I grew up with a lot of opportunities that many people don't have.

Jason Isbell

Money People Opportunities Grow Up

In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living.

Dick Van Dyke

Exercise Living Seventies Stay Avoid

The thing about 'Aquarius' is it's incredibly original, and it's really different than anything on network television. The story is so compelling, and it's something people are fascinated by.

Claire Holt

People Story Television Anything

I'm still always surprised that anyone might be interested in my work or me.

Anthony McCarten

Work Me Always Still Interested

It's important to celebrate your failures as much as your successes. If you celebrate your failures really well, and if you get to the motto and say, 'Wow, I failed, I tried, I was wrong, I learned something,' then you realize you have no fear, and when your fear goes away, you can move the world.

Sebastian Thrun

Fear Motto World Celebrate You Say