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1. Follow your heart. Be happy. Believe in yourself. I know that’s three, but they all seem integral to each other to me, darn it.
2. Remember I am in fact the center of the universe.
3. Be nice to people.
4. Life’s not fair. Calvin once wailed, “Yeah, but why isn’t it ever not fair in my *favor*?!” Here’s the thing: it is.
5. “It’s not the dying that should scare you, girl. It’s not living life to its fullest before your time: that should frighten you.”–Wolverine
6. Toot your own horn. Nobody else is going to.
7. It’s fun being a fanboy.
8. “Perspective: use it, or lose it.”–Richard Bach, Illusions
9. If you think people will like you, they almost always will.
10. Jubilee, on teaching Professor X to rollerblade, in one of the various time periods where he had use of his legs: “Out here on the pavement, it’s a lot simpler. You fall down? You get up and start over.”
Why, yes, I do find gems of wisdom in the X-Men. See #7.
Hee. I’m amused by the overlaps in spite of wildly different approaches.
Oh, I didn’t get around to mentioning this when you had your other meme….
A recommended book: Short read, VERY funny, send-up of SF/fantasy cons and writers and all:
Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb….
That’s a *wonderful* book, written (rumour has it) because it was cheaper than therapy.
I just re-read it yesterday, and discovered I’d forgotten how outrageously funny it is…..
Esp. the seen where Jay and Marion are attending the ST wedding and Jay whispers to Marion “Does that mean he’s going where no man has gone before?” I about fell over on the train, trying not to laugh out loud…
I love that book. :) Although Sharyn McCrumb says that the problem is that she has *become* Jay, the guy who wrote Bimbos of the Death Sun and can’t shake it. :)
Yeah. I also had ‘Trust everybody, but cut the cards’ in there, but eventually it had to go to make room for other stuff. :)
Claremont is coming back to Uncanny.
Joss is coming on board with New X-Men next year.
One is very cool, the other makes me want to take to my eyes with a rusty spoon.
Am I supposed to figure out which is which? :)
Hint: Chris Claremont is a raving lunatic.
I’m not sure that’s helpful. I mean, does being a raving lunatic help or hurt one’s ability to produce quality comics? ;-)
Yeah, and Joss Whedon is responsible for the worst line in the original X-Men movie. What’s your point? :)
It was a good line. Halle Berry just said it badly. :)
Halle Berry *did* say it badly, but it was a bad line, too. Joss’s claim is it was supposed to be said flippantly, which suggests to me a shit-poor understanding of the character. Storm never says anything flippantly. :)
And you aren’t writing X-Men why, again?
Silly Marvel!
Gimme a few years. :)