Jeff Lemire Quotes
Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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I would definitely love to be a parent.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my father was for a long time the president of the Board of Education. That was always a hard note to bring home.
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I was playing with George Harrison one time, and George loves takes. This song was up to Take 160. I said, 'George, do you want me to play the same thing or 160 different things?' It drove me crazy because, in general, I'm ready to play my part.
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The truth is, the 'Fortune' 500 prefer lobbying to campaigning.
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I can't tell you the number of stories I've told with a female protagonist don't get bought, or they do get bought and get changed drastically. Or, I will literally write into the script different races, and they get cast all-white. I hope that stops and it opens the door for more voices to be heard in movies.
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Letting a project sit and coming back to it is just as important as working on it all the time. You need to come back to it with fresh eyes.
