No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI love that the book [Paper Girls ] gets to kind of evolve and change in each era. Our third storyline is our best so far.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Fans of my books have just been supremely nice.
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We’ve all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they’re all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.
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I’m not afraid of the world. I’m afraid of a world without you.
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Doesn’t matter if it’s personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
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Everyone had a mother, even if she had to leave us on a stranger’s doorstep. No matter how we’re eventually raised, all of our stories begin the exact same way. They all end the same, too.
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Some people are haunted by their pasts, but not my family. I mean, how can you be haunted by something that never really dies?
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I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, “This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends.” It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I’d been spoon-fed.
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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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I’m 40 now, and I have children of my own. Before I forget my own childhood completely, I want to take some time to take a look at the ’80s and think back.
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I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.
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I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there’s no better place for new ideas than comics.
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I like being around teenagers. It’s good for drama; they feel everything much more intensely than adults do, their lives are much more interesting than ours. They’re mutants. They have these weird bodies that are rebelling against them and changing every day. Teenagers always equal good drama.
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