Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Hobb

I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty - they are not out on the street; they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata.

John Searles

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

Ann Nocenti

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Richard Masur

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

Gillian Anderson

I also respond very strongly to characters I have not done before ... something I can really sink my teeth into, and what's scary, and what terrifies me, because that's where I need to go.

Gale Anne Hurd

I've always been a fan of sci-fi, fantasy, and horror. I like working with larger-than-life characters in fascinating worlds - places where the rules are different.

Tatiana Maslany

There's so many different people that I'm fascinated by. Different kinds of characters that I meet in, like, everyday life, that I'm like, 'I don't know how you exist. Like, you're so fascinating.'

Sir Woodward

We are going to need big characters out there who can dig deep and show real fight and courage. Gareth is just such a character.

Tanith Lee

There are the characters who die but who you follow after death, and they often lead much more interesting lives after they are dead! So the characters usually drive me along, but occasionally the plot has to come first. It can get sticky.

Judy Gold

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

D. J. Cotrona

I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

Joe Lo Truglio

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

Jim Lee

People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.

Jim Lee

Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.

Geoff Johns

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

Scott McCloud

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

Michael Reagan

I highly commend Tim Todd for designing The Truth for Youth Bible. The spectacular comics deal with important issues that today's youth are faced with and it is making an eternal impact in our schools and around the country.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Leslie Mann

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Sarah Silverman

The female nudity in movies is always sexualized.

Sara Blakely

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Valerie Solanas

It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females. We must begin immediately to do so. Retaining the male has not even the dubious purpose of reproduction.

Sandra Bullock

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Roseanne Barr

Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I have asked my god that question and She answered, 'Hey, why not you Roseanne?' Indeed, why not each of us?

Sandra Bernhard

You have to take the basics of feminism and the kind of outline of it and do what you do with it. You have to make things work for your own life.

Sandra Bernhard

In the late '60s and '70s, when feminism was on the up sweep, there was an awareness of things that we're losing again.

Vladimir Lenin

Destroy the family and you destroy society

Robin Morgan

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began.

Warren Farrell

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Nancy Reagan

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

Larry Flynt

I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Libba Bray

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Germaine Greer

After thirty years of feminism there is vastly more pornography disseminated more widely than ever before.

Ron Iwami

I talked to A&B and HCDA, the two parties involved and they told me 'Ron, we will not move on this signing until the Legislature decides'.

Jim Bell

I think it is our role to get involved and not just sit back and wait for someone else to help.

William Kraft

I also like to involve the conductor. He needs to respect the piece and be involved in doing it, and the players should be involved in doing it.

Mark Francis

He wants to be involved in a lot of things this term so that he can become more acclimated with the position.

Thurston Moore

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.

Charles Mason

There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.

Maureen Murphy

He said he was involved with the Lions. I said 'What's a Lion?'

Shanna Carpenter

I think that (the policy) makes the student organizations be involved and share responsibility.

Sandy Goldstein

We're probably involved in 10 of the 30 most prominent investigations in the country.

Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Marsha Mason

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Luc de Clapiers

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

Troy Fisher

It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Lewis H. Lapham

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Kathleen Hanna

There's just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.

Michael Keaton

Guys who go on and on about loving women usually don't.

Bryan Callen

There are so many hot, sexy women in L.A.

Oprah Winfrey

What do you want women to know about intuition?

Teri Hatcher

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

Jaime Pressly

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Trish McDermott

I think Valentine's day is more of a woman's holiday. Women have more expectations.

Heinrich Heine

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day

Julianne Moore

I don't know why women do Botox. It doesn't make them look younger, it just makes them look like they had work done. You are not going to look the same as you did at 25.

Sarah Pinborough

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

David Dein

He has written his own part in Arsenal's history,

Dustin Hoffman

The Meyer Lansky part was written for you. I'll do it if I'm available.

Leslie Mann

Written by a woman automatically is better.

Constance Zimmer

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.

Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

Mark Johnson

It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script.

Deborah Moggach

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.

Steve Harley

I've written more than one song, you know.