Ted Naifeh quote: "Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society."

I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me....
TED NAIFEH

The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of ...
TED NAIFEH

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
TED NAIFEH

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome...
TED NAIFEH

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which t...
TED NAIFEH

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesqu...
TED NAIFEH

Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it...
TED NAIFEH

I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
TED NAIFEH

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
TED NAIFEH

I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ...
TED NAIFEH

I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was...
TED NAIFEH

Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, li...
TED NAIFEH

Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than ...
TED NAIFEH

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha...
TED NAIFEH

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid....
TED NAIFEH

Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old fores...
TED NAIFEH

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
TED NAIFEH

There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about child...
TED NAIFEH

When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on he...
TED NAIFEH

I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his la...
TED NAIFEH

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving y...
TED ALLEN

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is...
TED ALLEN

I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I ...
TED CRUZ

I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
TED NUGENT

I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start.
TED LIGETY

Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites...
TED LIGETY

A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick.
TED LIGETY

I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the te...
TED LIGETY

It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. ...
TED LIGETY

When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made i...
TED LIGETY

There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer.
TED LIGETY

About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh.
TED LEVINE

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
TED LEVINE

Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed...
TED LEVINE

I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosqu...
TED LANGE

I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richar...
TED LANGE

I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me.
TED LANGE

Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
TED LANGE

One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.
TED LANGE

I talk to the universe all the time.
TED LANGE

I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
TED LANGE

I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
TED LANGE

To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; ...
TED LANGE

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
TED LANGE

I have to reinvent myself.
TED KULONGOSKI

Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.
TED KULONGOSKI

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come w...
TED KULONGOSKI

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing ...
TED KULONGOSKI

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and i...
TED KULONGOSKI

The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands.
TED KULONGOSKI

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
TED KULONGOSKI

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our...
TED KULONGOSKI

I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
TED KULONGOSKI

A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.
TED KULONGOSKI

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.
TED KOTCHEFF

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
TED KOTCHEFF

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
TED KOTCHEFF

Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what ...
TED KOTCHEFF

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
TED KOTCHEFF

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
TED KOTCHEFF

I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
TED KOTCHEFF

I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
TED KOTCHEFF

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
TED KOTCHEFF

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of ...
TED KOTCHEFF

There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond...
TED KOPPEL

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its ...
TED KOPPEL

More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many ...
TED KOPPEL

My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq remain just as well-develope...
TED KOPPEL

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay...
TED KOPPEL

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and ...
TED KOPPEL

The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.
TED KOPPEL

I think we're glazing eyes all across America.
TED KOPPEL

I have the necessary lack of tact.
TED KOPPEL

There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. ...
TED KOPPEL

In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
TED KOPPEL

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
TED KOPPEL

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not ...
TED KOPPEL

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the '...
TED KOPPEL

There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.
TED KNIGHT

Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy.
TED KNIGHT

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin...
TED KING

I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ...
TED KING

I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on.
TED KING

I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ...
TED KING

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
TED HUGHES

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
TED HUGHES

What happens in the heart simply happens.
TED HUGHES

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and ...
TED ENGSTROM

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
TED ENGSTROM

The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
TED ENGSTROM

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the tim...
TED ENGSTROM

Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes ...
TED ENGSTROM

The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
TED DEXTER

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
TED DEXTER

I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Ven...
TED DEXTER

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I ...
TED DEXTER

Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down.
TED DEXTER

For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them...
TED DEUTCH

We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
TED DEUTCH

Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not ...
TED DEUTCH

When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in...
TED DEUTCH

Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t...
TED DEUTCH

We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating.
TED DEUTCH

Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa...
TED DEUTCH

We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
TED DEUTCH

It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h...
TED DEUTCH

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar...
TED DEUTCH

I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and...
TED DEUTCH

We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip...
TED DEUTCH

I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast...
TED DEUTCH

This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak...
TED DEUTCH

Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons.
TED DEUTCH

Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l...
TED DEUTCH

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just...
TED DEUTCH

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo...
TED DEUTCH

From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin...
TED DEUTCH

I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it...
TED DEUTCH

I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta...
TED DEUTCH

For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr...
TED DEUTCH

Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ...
TED DEUTCH

It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place.
TED DEUTCH

There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
TED DEMME

The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two f...
TED DEMME

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ...
TED DEMME

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.
TED DEMME

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
TED DEMME

I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, beca...
TED DEMME

And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my fav...
TED DEMME

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish ano...
TED DEMME

I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto...
TED DEMME

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, li...
TED DEMME

The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curio...
TED DEMME

But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though...
TED DEMME

You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some dire...
TED DEMME

My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho...
TED DEKKER

I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o...
TED DEKKER

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER

I studied philosophy, religious studies, and English. My training was writing four full-length novel...
TED DEKKER

I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I ...
TED DEKKER

My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER

All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ...
TED DEKKER

My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's und...
TED DEKKER

It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the d...
TED DEKKER

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My r...
TED DEKKER

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER

If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this s...
TED DEKKER

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by ou...
TED DEKKER

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. Th...
TED DEKKER

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle bet...
TED DEKKER

My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas...
TED DEKKER

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking ...
TED DEKKER

Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality...
TED DEKKER

Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high ...
TED DEKKER

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving bey...
TED DEKKER

The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, a...
TED DEKKER

My journey is so similar to everyone else's journey, because we all are human. We all have been ...
TED DEKKER

If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and i...
TED DEKKER

It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that da...
TED DEKKER

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What...
TED DEKKER

Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
TED DANSON

Everything I am, everything I've been allowed to do, career-wise, has come out of the opportunit...
TED DANSON

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick...
TED DANSON

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol...
TED DANSON

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take anot...
TED DANSON

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
TED DANSON

'Cheers' was great. They paired me up with Shelley Long on this tiny bar set for the final a...
TED DANSON

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbli...
TED DANSON

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming beca...
TED DANSON

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are ve...
TED DANSON

Looking out at the ocean, it's easy to feel small - and to imagine all your troubles, suddenly i...
TED DANSON

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole respons...
TED DANSON

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oi...
TED DANSON

Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone them...
TED DANSON

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends up...
TED DANSON

You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
TED DANSON

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding...
TED DANSON

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it...
TED DANSON

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but...
TED DANSON

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ...
TED CRUZ

When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meani...
TED CRUZ

The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds.
TED CRUZ

We are witnessing a great awakening. Millions of Texans, millions of Americans are rising up to recl...
TED CRUZ

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.
TED CRUZ

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more a...
TED CRUZ

I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the script...
TED CRUZ

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because y...
TED CRUZ

If you will not stand with Israel and the Jews, then I will not stand with you.
TED CRUZ

It is the job of our military to protect America and to hunt down and kill those who would threaten ...
TED CRUZ

I was so horrifically bad at tennis.
TED CRUZ

I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
TED CRUZ

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
TED CRUZ

I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
TED CRUZ

Stopping bad things is a significant public service.
TED CRUZ

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world...
TED CRUZ

When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fi...
TED CHIANG

I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sol...
TED CHIANG

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
TED CHIANG

I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b...
TED CHIANG

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal...
TED CHIANG

Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

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Ted Naifeh

Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.

Ted Naifeh

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