I think some people are just very passionate that things remain the way they were when they were kids.
BRIAN K. VAUGHANI’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.
More Brian K. Vaughan Quotes
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Yeah, that’s right. Flee in terror, bitches!
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I don’t start a story until I know where it’s going to end.
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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?
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Pacifists are like vegans, I’m more of a vegetarian. I enjoy fish and occasional maulings.
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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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Life is mostly just learning how to lose.
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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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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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How is it possible that our parents lied to us?” “Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You’re the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…” “Everythings going to be alright.
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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn’t where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make *you* better.
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There’s just something about that late ’80s that suddenly feels like it has something to teach us.
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These are the young women [in Stand by Me] that we grew up knowing and hopefully they feel a little rough around the edges, because it’s true to life.
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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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If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I’m happy.
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I think there is a possible future where maybe we do just take a hard turn away from the Internet and we do start valuing our privacy again.
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