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People always go, 'Damn, how you got all this happening at once?' I tell them it's the Chicago in me.
I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.
When something good happens it's a miracle and you should wonder what God is saving up for you later.
Every problem offers an opportunity for a solution. if you are in the right frame of mind to find it.
What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.
We're still dancing to tunes created by men who thought that a thunderstorm was a sig of God's anger.
Style and taste do not have anything to do with the other. It's the difference between wit and humor.
You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.
Science fiction makes the implausible possible, while science fantasy makes the impossible plausible.
I love all of mythology and rules pertaining to all of the monsters, but I like to go the extra step.
My mum was a bookies' runner at nine years old and my dad's uncles were Peaky Blinders and gangsters.
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.
Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.
The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!
I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
White-collar crime has been marketed - billions of dollars have been put in to have us be bored by it.
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
I always say that a girl never really looks as well as she does on board a steamship, or even a yacht.
The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.
Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.
My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.
I have three boys. Sometimes my wife and I really have to battle to keep video games from encroaching.
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
We often do to people what people are very comfortable with doing to animals without a second thought.
I have a tendency to hire people who tend to be unattractive to the studios. Maybe this is a bad idea.
I just felt that Danny Rand within the Luke Cage universe... I just felt that he was going to be dope.
The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.
Even though I've got this really brawny, masculine reputation, I'm a Shondaland Thursdays kind of guy.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I think if we ever encountered aliens, even communicating with them would be really, really difficult.
Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.
There was a criticism of 'Milk' that I found truth in, which was that it was focused on gay white men.
Benjamin, we’re meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.
TV's like whitewater rafting: Without rocks, there wouldn't be rapids, and it wouldn't be as much fun.
Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.
Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.
When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.
I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.
Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.
I've always been more afraid of being left alone or left out than of things that go bump in the night.
My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.
You hear a lot of writers talk like writing is therapy or some kind of magic art, but it's a business.
Why should I dislike anything about my appearance? I came off the factory line this way. I am perfect.
My philosophy was always try to look like Whitney Houston at all times. That did not work out so well.
What has brought unique, irreplaceable me - out of all the possibilities of life - here, now, to this?