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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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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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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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on
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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” “Elton John?” “Close. Ernest Hemingway. In his own way, sort of the rock star of his time.
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American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
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Don't be afraid to have a big vision, but make sure it's a clear one.
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My father loved music. He loved Motown and R&B, and my mother loved Journey and Fleetwood Mac, so they were always listening to it and playing it.
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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.
