"At first I was thinking of it as superheroes who happened to be teenagers. Then I realized, no, I'm writing about teenagers who happen to be superheroes. Thinking like that changed everything for me. I started approaching the stories through the characters' core emotions, rather than leading with the superpowers."

-- Lisa Yee

#Teenager Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”
“While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.”

Source : Jim Norton (2008). “I Hate Your Guts”, p.158, Simon and Schuster
“It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.”
“My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage.”

Source : Peter Paul Rubens, Toledo Museum of Art (1991). “The Crowning of Saint Catherine: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 1577-1640”
“Scientific realism in classical (i.e. pre-quantum) physics has remained compatible with the naive realism of everyday thinking on the whole; whereas it has proven impossible to find any consistent way to visualize the world underlying quantum theory in terms of our pictures in the everyday world. The general conclusion is that in quantum theory naive realism, although necessary at the level of observations, fails at the microscopic level.”

Source : "Physics and Commonsense - Reassessing the connection in the light of quantum theory". arxiv.org. August 12, 2007.
“Donâ€™t let your life speed out of control. Live intentionally. Do something today that will last beyond your lifetime.”
“I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.”
“Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.”

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