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When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.

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Mark Millar
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 24
Comic Book Writer
Comics Writer
Screenwriter
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In the U.S., Superman or Batman or something, the law-enforcement people, are the most famous comic characters. Americans have a respect, I think, for badges and a respect for uniforms. I think that's, in some ways, quite a nice thing, but it can be dangerous, too, because it can obviously be abused.
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All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.
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Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.
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Maybe in this Star Wars world maybe subconsciously I was preparing myself. But I've just found all of my ideas I've been coming up with are big sci-fi things, and I wanted to do a big epic, a big space opera, and this is it. This is mine.
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Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?
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What I do with everything is take things out of real life. You encounter all sorts of stories. It's a lot of your friends and family, sometimes there's quite sad episodes in their life and everything. So just little things I've picked up along the years always find a way into all of my stories.
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If you feel the need to make everyone happy, you should be a wedding planner not a leader.
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First, believe in your ability to create the future. That's what leaders do-that is our job. Understand reality but never be imprisoned by it. Reality is a moment in time. The future has not yet been written-it is written by leaders.
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Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished.
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The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
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The ultimate [act] that would be the taboo, to show how bad some villain is, was to have somebody being raped, you know? I don't really think it matters. It's the same as, like, a decapitation. It's just a horrible act to show that somebody's a bad guy.
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She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
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I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
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Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
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Batman: a force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost. A walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.
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Leaders don't ever arrive. If we ever think we're done, we are done!
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Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so they buy a cookbook with pictures and imagine themselves as part of that life.
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I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing.
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I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
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It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.
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