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Gil Kane Quotes

If I had one quality that really ruined me and at the same time helped me, it was the fact that I never stopped looking, and by that time I was really working at it.

Gil Kane

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 6, 1926 - January 31, 2000

Topics

Time Quality Me Looking Never Same

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Jill Abramson

Voice Nobody Authority More Wants

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.

John Berger

Fear Culture Years Lived Facing

What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect.

Andrew Young

Respect North Korea Wants North Iran

Fear has never educated a child. Fear has never built a home.

Andrew Cuomo

Fear Home Child Never Educated

In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the high ranks of contemporary fiction but as a describer of a Britain that literally and metaphorically was in a deep mess.

Melvyn Bragg

Deep Place Mess High Fiction Only

I'd like to pretend to be all Olympian and above it, as if this is a phenomenon I'm observing from a great height, nothing to do with my own behavior at all - but the fact is I'm absolutely one of those people in the cafe staring at my phone.

John Lanchester

Great People Behavior Phone Nothing

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet.

Michael Dirda

Work People Reading Think Meet Will

Baseball is not a grind for me.

Steve Finley

Baseball Me Grind

I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure.' It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Sue Townsend

Hate People Me Feel You Treasure

I'm incredibly boring; I had a very happy childhood. I never starved, nor did I have a silver spoon in my mouth. I'm one of those terribly middle-of-the-road, British middle class, South London gents.

Jude Law

Childhood Happy Mouth Boring Silver

The Internet is going to have a bigger impact on content creators than the television ever had. The reason why that's the case is that suddenly you're able to tell stories 24/7 in the home, out of the home, in every room of the home. A television screen can be in your pocket through a smartphone.

Jason Kilar

Home Impact Internet You Television

People used to see things that disgusted them and say, 'I never want to see that again.' Now we've reached the point where we see things that are disturbing and revolting to us, but we want to see more and more of it.

Josh Tillman

People Now Say Want Never See