Jeff Lemire Quotes
I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I can only control what I can control.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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Part of my preparation is I go and ask the kit man what colour we're wearing - if it's red top, white shorts, white socks or black socks. Then I lie in bed the night before the game and visualise myself scoring goals or doing well.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.
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As a child I sometimes used to travel to the West Bank to visit my family, so I know what the checkpoints felt like. I knew what it was like to live under occupation.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
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Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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I was invincible. I believed all my problems were gone and I finally made it, that L.A. was my answer to everything.
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We've never been your traditional rock-pop band. Lyrically, I've always had more of an interest in spirituality and that kind of thing.
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The future of our national pastime, the great national pastime, is clearly represented in these agreements.
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I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.
