Nate Powell Quotes

We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

Nate Powell

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I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

John Garfield

BeginningMeAlwaysStageEverything

I can usually tell when a woman is going through a divorce because they look so gaunt and tired and sad. It's just a huge sadness. It's horrible. It's like death. You mourn, but the person's still there.

Andie MacDowell

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I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.

Tommy Kirk

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We're so quick to go to make things black and white, and to put things in their box. But everything is this mixture - and that's what this world is - is this blend of different things.

Matisyahu

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Usually I spend my holidays with my family.

Mike Shinoda

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A program to make municipal composting of food and yard waste mandatory and then distributing the compost free to area farmers would shrink America's garbage heap, cut the need for irrigation and fossil-fuel fertilizers in agriculture, and improve the nutritional quality of the American diet.

Michael Pollan

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Usually when you're auditioning for something, you are taking whatever is coming at you and saying 'yes' because you have to to survive.

Jason Ralph

SurviveSayingYouWhateverComing

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

Janis Ian

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If you do an American TV series, before the audition you sign away the next five years of your life.

Dominic West

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My first paying gig was a play called 'The Voice of the Prairie' at a theater that no longer exists in Chicago called Wisdom Bridge. I played a fast-talking radio huckster - a salesman of crystal sets in the 1920s - and I actually won an award. Look at that! And then promptly didn't get hired for a year.

Denis O'Hare

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The Nationalists peddle a misplaced cultural conceit that holds that everyone south of the Solway Firth is an austerity loving Tory.

Douglas Alexander

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There had to be a market in order for you to be successful in a business. The market had to need your business, or the product of it.

Chuck Berry

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