"I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize."

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Harvey Pekar

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.”
“John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.”
“All reporters have a stripe of irreverence in their mental makeup. It usually keeps them from turning into toadies, a danger for those who associate, even in an adversarial way, with the rich and powerful.”
“Those alone are dear to Divinity who are hostile to injustice.”
“I think, just the exhilaration of flying. The freedom of the air. The freedom of flight. And you completely remove yourself from the world. And you can voluntarily remove yourself from all those...everything that's near and dear to you. And you voluntarily return.”
“The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.”
“We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.”

Source : "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 04, 2012.

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