Jeff Lemire Quotes
I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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On 'Death Valley,' I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.
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My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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In order to be an image of God, the spirit must turn to what is eternal, hold it in spirit, keep it in memory, and by loving it, embrace it in the will.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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The world is like a vast sea: mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. ... [T]he sciences serve us for oars.
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There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.
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You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.
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Use the creative process - singing, writing, art, dance, whatever - to get to know yourself better.
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I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.
