Kieron Gillen Quotes

#1. Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

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#2. After all, nostalgia is an emotion for people with no future.

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#3. Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

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#4. Music will save your life, but may leave you with a life not worth saving. The characters Phonogram tends to follow are extreme cases.

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#5. Empires are born. Empires reach their peak. Empires die. Death is never pretty. (...) Is it that the good die young, or is it simply that the old turn bad and mad?

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#6. Look at Woden and his cheerily racist army of ethnic monocultured valkyrie fuck buddies.

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#7. Belief is all-important in what we do.

You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories.

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#8. A synopsis of every story we do: someone gets over their own stupid ass.

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#9. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

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#10. I actually didn't see it coming. -Captain America

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#11. The only great darkness I'm good at fighting is the one inside all of us. I'd like to light a fire inside everyone that can burn forever

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#12. It is a poor critic who says that a lack of effect on them implies all others are insincere in their love.

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#13. Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris when it fails. When Hubris pays off, we call these people geniuses.

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#14. I've never had much attraction to writing fanfiction. I don't spend much time thinking about properties I don't own, as it's 'wasted' brain-cycles.

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#15. You forget who is master and who is student. It is your duty to learn what I know. It is my duty to learn what there is to teach.

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#16. Revolution is just change with ideological roots showing like bad peroxide.

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#17. You can realize your dream, as long as it's got enough nightmare in it

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#18. When I speak, people know that in my gut, I'm bad. They feel better about being bad in their guts.

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#19. Do you want to be smart or do you want to know things?

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#20. When you have characters talking about music in any way, especially about music someone doesn't know, some people presume it's about showing social capital and sneering at those who don't have it.

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#21. Late night chaining of videos and basically obsessing are rare for me, and often I've never even seen the videos of my favourite songs. That said, in terms of my own personal magic, video has probably rated lower than most music fans.

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