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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Marjane Satrapi

You Talent Think Writing

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Painting Creative Soup More

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

Love Song Think Wings

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Margaret Atwood

Art You Loyalty Artist

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Mind Thinking Happy Only

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wisdom Yourself Always Somebody Else

Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.

Lorraine Hansberry

Women Men Think Way

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Men New Always More

Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You Burn Avoid Use

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Jean de la Bruyere

Mind Always Telling Mark

Here I am, a not over-good business man, a second-rate engineer. I can make poor mechanical drawings. I play the piano after a fashion. In fact, I am one of those proverbial Jack-of-all-trades who are usually failures. Why I am not, I can't tell you.

Charles M. Schwab

Business Man You I Am

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Love Work You Better

I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.

Me Friends Country Living

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

Business People Hire First-Rate

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Thoughts Friends Will Person

It's often better to read first-rate science fiction than second-rate science - it's far more stimulating, and perhaps no more likely to be wrong.

Science Better Wrong More

In truth, the best Bitcoin can hope for is to be a second-rate version of gold, if that.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Best Hope Truth Gold

I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic.

Myself Hope Time Passion

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

Richard Strauss

I Am I May Not May Am

There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

Work Appreciation Men Criticism

In Formula One, the car can make a difference in a way that a driver cannot. Whereas Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna spent their early seasons in second-rate machinery, Hamilton walked into the equal best car on the grid. His first season none the less has, by any standards, been extraordinary.

Best Car Way Seasons

You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.

Natalia Ginzburg

You Just Made Materials

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Father Never Copy Trying

If you live in a democracy, it's very tiring to be always surrounded by great and high abstract generalisations which are, in fact, the most banal and naive cliches dug out of second-rate movements of the late 19th century.

John Ralston Saul

You Democracy Great Live

When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-rate version of another writer.'

Yourself Writing Teach Version

It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

Great Better Pride Play

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