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"It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts."
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"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

"No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style."

"I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating."

"Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish."

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"As a Republican, I am all for competition."

"I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine."

"A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace."

"They demanded a monopoly of the coasting trade, in order to get higher freights than they could get in open competition with the carriers of the world."

"The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us."
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"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion."


"Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it."


"The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want."


"I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush."


"Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old."


"That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers."


"I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal."


"Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities."


"You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better."
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