#rate

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. ↗

— Mark Millar

#animated #big #books #forget #lowest

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate. ↗

— Agnes de Mille

#anything #creative #demon #rate #second

Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation. ↗

— Alice Miller

#child #childhood #desperate #disease #fantasies

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? ↗

— Arthur Miller

#am #art #better #certain #certain age

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people. ↗

— Frank Miller

#characters #defined #environment #having #how

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated. ↗

— Gary Miller

#consumers #demonstrated #distributed #fragile #gasoline

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. ↗

— Henry Miller

#everything #except #his #man #master

Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze. ↗

— James Nathan Miller

#character #gaze #his #managed #mastery

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#design #intelligent #new #strategy #teach

All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. ↗

— Mark Crispin Miller

#barnes #decorate #exceptions #faces #few