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I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.
Stan Lee
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Stan Lee
Age: 95 †
Born: 1922
Born: December 28
Died: 2018
Died: November 12
Business Executive
Comic Book Writer
Comics Writer
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Executive Producer
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Film Producer
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Manhattan borough
New York City
Stanley Lieber
Stanley Martin Lieber
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I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.
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I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.
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I'm not a guy who gets inspirations.
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There's never a time when I'm not working. I don't take vacations.
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I love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.
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The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
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The public always loves anything that's different, as long as it's well-made, if it's well-done. You never know what to expect when you go to one of these so-called superhero movies.
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To tell you the truth, I never thought of myself as much of a success.
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Some people will say, Why read a comic book? It stifles the imagination. If you read a novel you imagine what people are like. If you read a comic, it's showing you. The only answer I can give is, You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?
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I think it's just the challenge. It's not that all my life I've wanted to do characters [in Marvel] , because I never particularly thought about it, but the challenge of saying, How could they be done differently that may be more absorbing or more effective?
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If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?
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I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know.
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I see myself in everything I write. All the good guys are me.
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I have to force myself to get angry. But I want to show the world that there's another side to me, that I am capable of deep, deep anger and fury. They better watch out for how I'm treated.
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