Nate Powell quote: "There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback."

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
NATE POWELL

Power, privilege, and violence are not, and never were, strictly Southern issues in America.
NATE POWELL

Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full...
NATE POWELL

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay ...
NATE POWELL

My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and ...
NATE POWELL

We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'l...
NATE POWELL

The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b...
NATE POWELL

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
NATE POWELL

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fanta...
NATE POWELL

I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this w...
NATE POWELL

I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway,...
NATE POWELL

I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carr...
NATE POWELL

The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', &#...
NATE POWELL

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between...
NATE POWELL

My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the undergr...
NATE POWELL

The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot ...
NATE POWELL

I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k...
NATE BERKUS

I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver ...
NATE BERKUS

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER

I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the...
NATE BERKUS

I'd say, specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from '...
NATE TORRENCE

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before Ti...
NATE TORRENCE

I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... ...
NATE TORRENCE

I specifically had my son wear a Browns jersey on the streets of Pittsburgh while we were there.
NATE TORRENCE

I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'G...
NATE TORRENCE

People weren't willing to bet on 'The Commercial Guy' when they were casting movies and ...
NATE TORRENCE

Even through 'Get Smart' or 'She's Out of My League,' I have yet to have that in...
NATE TORRENCE

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
NATE TORRENCE

To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
NATE TORRENCE

I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
NATE TORRENCE

I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you sh...
NATE SILVER

If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking ...
NATE SILVER

People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they a...
NATE SILVER

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.
NATE SILVER

We want to get 80%-85% of predictions right, not 100%. Or else we calibrated our estimates in the wr...
NATE SILVER

I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
NATE SILVER

Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
NATE SILVER

You get steely nerves playing poker.
NATE SILVER

Well the way we perceive accuracy and what accuracy is statistically are really two different things...
NATE SILVER

A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pur...
NATE SILVER

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
NATE SILVER

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
NATE SILVER

When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an...
NATE SILVER

Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library ...
NATE SILVER

The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses...
NATE SILVER

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.
NATE SILVER

We must become more comfortable with probability and uncertainty.
NATE SILVER

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.
NATE SILVER

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and ...
NATE SILVER

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.
NATE SILVER

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold strea...
NATE SILVER

It's important that I get time to run, to just go for a jog for about 30 minutes. It helps with ...
NATE RUESS

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pr...
NATE RUESS

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anym...
NATE RUESS

We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest....
NATE RUESS

I don't want to be known for anything other than writing songs.
NATE RUESS

I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything lik...
NATE RUESS

I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than...
NATE RUESS

But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shoul...
NATE RUESS

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good v...
NATE RUESS

I think any branding for me is band-related. It's really weird to get used to the exposure, beca...
NATE RUESS

I always wanted to be a singer, but none of my friends thought I could sing.
NATE RUESS

In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
NATE RUESS

The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well someti...
NATE RUESS

If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the ...
NATE RUESS

Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically ...
NATE RUESS

As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thin...
NATE RUESS

A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and tu...
NATE RUESS

I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering abou...
NATE RUESS

My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a ...
NATE RUESS

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the ...
NATE RUESS

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I h...
NATE RUESS

My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She...
NATE ROBINSON

When I was younger, I was a bit of a feisty fighter type of guy. That's something my father told...
NATE ROBINSON

We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking...
NATE ROBINSON

I love basketball, but I miss football every time I watch it.
NATE ROBINSON

I love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
NATE ROBINSON

I am a diehard Seahawks fan because I'm born and raised in Seattle.
NATE ROBINSON

Fans are awesome.
NATE ROBINSON

The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know.
NATE ROBINSON

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for...
NATE ROBINSON

Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do th...
NATE ROBINSON

I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
NATE ROBINSON

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my siste...
NATE ROBINSON

As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them ...
NATE ROBINSON

Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for...
NATE ROBINSON

There's so many kids in the world who are told, 'You can't do this, you can't do tha...
NATE ROBINSON

Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
NATE ROBINSON

I don't like one-foot jumpers like LeBron James. It looks better jumping off two feet. Every tim...
NATE ROBINSON

My least favorite subject? Uh... I didn't have a least favorite subject because, I mean, high sc...
NATE ROBINSON

Guys back in the day, we didn't have wallets. I never kept my money in my pocket; my money alway...
NATE ROBINSON

I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
NATE ROBINSON

I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free ...
NATE ROBINSON

You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can ...
NATE ROBINSON

I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between question...
NATE MENDEL

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of quest...
NATE MENDEL

When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to th...
NATE MENDEL

How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parod...
NATE MENDEL

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.
NATE MENDEL

If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has t...
NATE MENDEL

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the scien...
NATE MENDEL

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily con...
NATE LOWMAN

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discou...
NATE LOWMAN

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
NATE LOWMAN

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
NATE LOWMAN

It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when flu...
NATE LOWMAN

I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I ...
NATE LOWMAN

I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'...
NATE LOWMAN

I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curati...
NATE LOWMAN

When you mix fashion and politics, you get fascism. Politics have fashion, and it's bad; fashion...
NATE LOWMAN

I do believe that I will see the apocalypse in my lifetime. And when it comes, I'm not repenting...
NATE LOWMAN

To me, a drop of oil paint or a xerographic dot are the same thing - they're all just language.
NATE LOWMAN

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or p...
NATE LOWMAN

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no...
NATE LOWMAN

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.
NATE LOWMAN

I love language, and I love the failure of language.
NATE LOWMAN

Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
NATE LOWMAN

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion,...
NATE LOWMAN

When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm u...
NATE HOLLAND

My best nutrition tip is to eat things you like that are low in calories and fat. Some of my favorit...
NATE HOLLAND

I go to all of the trade shows, know a lot of the people making marketing decisions, and I want to k...
NATE HOLLAND

I've always had a strong start, but the start in boardercross is so important. And if you're...
NATE HOLLAND

Summertime is my favorite time of year in Sandpoint, reason being, Lake Pend Oreille is warm and rea...
NATE HOLLAND

When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winn...
NATE HOLLAND

I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like...
NATE HOLLAND

My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are...
NATE HOLLAND

Some days I'll have good starts, and some days I'll have bad starts. I'm really focusing...
NATE HOLLAND

I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather tha...
NATE HOLLAND

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
NATE HOLLAND

Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a t...
NATE HOLLAND

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
NATE HOLLAND

Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort ...
NATE HOLLAND

Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a b...
NATE HOLLAND

I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy....
NATE DIAZ

I want to fight the best guy. I always want to fight the best guy.
NATE DIAZ

Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn'...
NATE DIAZ

Me calling out Roy Jones is disrespectful.
NATE DIAZ

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in se...
NATE DIAZ

I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre....
NATE DIAZ

There was a rumor I was walking around at 183 pounds. When I left my room to fight Conor McGregor, I...
NATE DIAZ

Money talks. I want the biggest fight. Whoever I've got to fight - the biggest show, biggest pay...
NATE DIAZ

If I had been thinking business since I was 21, I'd be a rich man right now.
NATE DIAZ

I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whateve...
NATE DIAZ

People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to ...
NATE DIAZ

I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press....
NATE DIAZ

I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of the...
NATE DIAZ

My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classro...
NATE DIAZ

I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
NATE DIAZ

I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over pe...
NATE DIAZ

If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to...
NATE DIAZ

If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the ...
NATE DIAZ

People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. ...
NATE DIAZ

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
NATE DIAZ

I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around p...
NATE DIAZ

I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be deal...
NATE DIAZ

Once I turned pro, I was like,' OK, this is not fun and games now. This is me. I'm going to ...
NATE DIAZ

I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
NATE DIAZ

I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going o...
NATE DIAZ

It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there...
NATE DIAZ

I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
NATE CORDDRY

I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
NATE CORDDRY

Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. Wh...
NATE CORDDRY

Lewis Black taught me stand-up.
NATE CORDDRY

My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the p...
NATE CORDDRY

There are a lot of funny people in my family. Absolutely. There were a lot of jokes growing up aroun...
NATE CORDDRY

Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make su...
NATE CORDDRY

When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The com...
NATE CORDDRY

I hate sets. I've always hated sets. I think that if you have a dining room set, break it up!
NATE BERKUS

Everywhere your eye travels in your home, it should land on something that resonates with you.
NATE BERKUS

One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants...
NATE BERKUS

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you th...
NATE BERKUS

About 90 percent of the pieces in my home are vintage, and I'm a ruthless editor. I only live wi...
NATE BERKUS

I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gil...
NATE BERKUS

Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memorie...
NATE BERKUS

Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
NATE BERKUS

Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what...
NATE BERKUS

I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I...
NATE BERKUS

Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see ...
NATE BERKUS

My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something tha...
NATE BERKUS

I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a r...
NATE BERKUS

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
NATE BERKUS

You can find a lot of reasonable buys at Wal-Mart. But one key to making it on a budget is by donati...
NATE BERKUS

We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin po...
NATE BERKUS

In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
NATE BERKUS

In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all dep...
NATE BERKUS

When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns...
NATE BERKUS

Whenever you have dynamic interactions between 300 million people and the American economy acting in...
NATE SILVER

You can change the feel of your sofa by adding a thick, cozy throw and playing a couple of classic p...
NATE BERKUS

My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '...
NATE ROBINSON

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political vi...
NATE SILVER

Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
NATE SILVER

I had never heard of Cingular, but they needed people to jump on trampolines. Well, when I was 13, I...
NATE TORRENCE

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
NATE SILVER

We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of...
NATE BERKUS

The thing that people associate with expertise, authoritativeness, kind of with a capital 'A,...
NATE SILVER

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backd...
NATE BERKUS

It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying...
NATE DIAZ

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to pl...
NATE SILVER

I believe your home tells a story about who you are and who you aspire to be. We represent ourselves...
NATE BERKUS

I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly ev...
NATE RUESS

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

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There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

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