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.

Jeff Lemire

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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.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Time
  • Practice
  • Now

• 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.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Movie

• I can only control what I can control.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Control
  • I Can
  • Only

• I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Like
  • New
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Time
  • House

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Night
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Lost
  • Moments

• I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Good
  • Think
  • Future

• I have lots of fans, they are mostly under the age of 12, boys and girls.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Age
  • Fans
  • Lots

• I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Awareness

• 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.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Travel

• Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Price
  • Discrimination
  • Choosing

• Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Live
  • Character
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Enjoy
  • Beauty

• Women's tennis is two sets of rubbish that lasts only half an hour.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Women
  • Tennis
  • Half

• I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • World
  • Writing
  • Family

• I don't think I'm inherently feminist. I think the universe wants me to be feminist, and I think I resonate with that. I think it just chose me to be this female energy... thing. And I'm very drawn to female energy, but I don't really have any prerequisites in feminism. I just roll with it.

  

  SZA
  • Energy
  • Universe
  • Feminist

• Don't be afraid, you can do it.

  

  Steve Jobs

• You're just one of the guys who fills a suit, and that's what's drilled into you by the record company and the management - 'You're lucky to have it. Now shut your mouth.' I get where that comes from, but it takes time to shake it off.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Management
  • Guys
  • Record Company

• I think, for a long time, people thought I was a figment of Phil Spector's imagination because they knew The Crystals, they knew The Ronettes, they knew Bob B. Sox and the Blue Jeans, but had never had met Darlene Love.

  

  Darlene Love
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• People assume that because I'm a celebrity and have this platform that I always know what I'm talking about. I guess I don't always know what I'm talking about because I'm a kid who's trying to figure it out amid all the chaos of the world at large, and also the chaos of having this voice and responsibility. At the same time, this voice and responsibility has been the biggest blessing because I'm able to create change just by posting something on Instagram. That's really amazing. I can't believe that I get to have that megaphone and I get to decide how to use it.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• 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.

  

  Jeff Lemire