Ted Naifeh Quotes

Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

Ted Naifeh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 20, 1971

Topics

GoodBeautifulOldFairiesThings

My privileged upbringing and education and linguistic fluency gave me such proximity to whiteness that it stung all the more to still find myself outside of it. My mother, on the other hand, not only accepted that she would always be an outsider in this country but also believed it to be a finer fate and home than any other she could have had.

Jenny Zhang

EducationMotherHomeMyselfMeShe

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Robert Rauschenberg

TimeWordsInterestingMomentumStop

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

Mia Wasikowska

SimpleEqualityDownKnowWhyStuff

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

FindNowFictionWonderfulIdea

When I first started acting, somebody once said to me that anything that is a problem that prevents you from getting a job will eventually be a strength. It works both ways. The odder you are, the harder it is to get work, but once you sort of establish it, you have no competition.

Tom Noonan

WorkStrengthJobCompetitionMe

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

Roger Moore

GoodBestDayWorldYouNobody

The only pleasurable part of taking the subway, as everyone will agree, is concocting elaborate fantasies about what it would be like to be married to the most interesting strangers you see there.

Russell Smith

InterestingYouStrangersWillSee

I think people know by now that I do my own writing.

Mick Foley

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

LifeSportsSucceedWinningGame

I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.

David Thewlis

MyselfChallengeJobInteresting

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.

Brian Boitano

LifeProfessionalReadyMove OnMove

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!

Ashley Madekwe

GoodPeopleRememberMeetingTry

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