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Others control our opportunities, we control our readiness.

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Mark Millar
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: December 24
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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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I'm very lucky that I have this other career that runs alongside my comic career, which is a film career, and I've been given this really lovely setup where they seem to make the movies very quickly as well.
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I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.
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Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.
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The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
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Ever since 1980, sci-fi has generally been more Bladerunner than Star Wars. People talk about Star Wars being the most influential movie of all time and creating the blockbuster along with Jaws and that sort of thing, but really there's not been a space opera that anyone can go and see.
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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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The highest form of leadership is one in which a leader raises up other leaders - not as an accident, but as a result of conscious effort.
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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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When you expect the best from people, you will often see more in them than they see in themselves.
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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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I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.
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You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
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I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.
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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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The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.
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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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Leaders don't ever arrive. If we ever think we're done, we are done!
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I don't know, maybe it's just timely, or maybe it's the fact that I live in a house with four women, but I just find my thoughts kind of skewing that direction at the moment.
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