Dav Pilkey I think every character I’ve ever come up with has been based on someone or something I’ve known. – Dav Pilkey Based Quotes Character Quotes My books are just pure escapism for kids. I created ‘Captain Underpants’ when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing ‘Captain Underpants’. Soon I was making my own comic books about him.
MedicalSiddhartha Mukherjee A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias. – Siddhartha Mukherjee
Julie Burchill I am not one of those fat birds who feels miserable because models are thin. Frankly, I feel more insulted by the idea that unless I see other fat birds in fashion magazines, I will be reduced to a sniveling wreck of a human being. – Julie Burchill
Asghar Farhadi I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don’t really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. – Asghar Farhadi
Elsa Hosk My favorite part about modeling is probably my least favorite part as well. It’s traveling. Because it goes both ways. It’s so amazing to get to see the world; we’re so fortunate to go to all these places that I would never be in unless I was a model. – Elsa Hosk
John Fusco He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I’m of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo. – John Fusco
Ashraf Ghani My central objective is, turn Afghanistan’s location into a greater asset. Central Asia is becoming Afghanistan’s major trading partner. The vision of connectivity is really important. – Ashraf Ghani
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