#ore

I knew that I could be more creative onstage, to state my own case and deliver my own interpretation of the role much more aggressively than in the recording studio. ↗

— Kiri Te Kanawa

#case #could #creative #deliver #i

I created Batman about 10 years before Ian Fleming created James Bond. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #before #bond #created #fleming

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic. ↗

— Bob Kane

#illustrative #look #more #new #realistic

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#comes #commercial #expected #film #first

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. ↗

— Paul Kane

#achieved #anymore #come #end #find

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fiction again. But I never consciously set out to become a writer and I never thought I'd be doing the things I'm doing today. ↗

— Paul Kane

#always #because #become #before #book

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ↗

— Paul Kane

#also #around #away #chat #computer

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. ↗

— Paul Kane

#before #encouragement #few #finding #flame

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly. ↗

— Paul Kane

#complete #complete control #control #done #going

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#begets #ennobling #even #evil #forgetting