Jeff Lemire Quotes
I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is nice to be part of the conversation - just be sure they are talking about you in the right way.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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I take my work seriously.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
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I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!
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When I started off many years ago, I made a determination that there were certain roles I didn't want to play.
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I was so obsessed with football that you could say I was taking the goal home with me at night. And then one day the system fell apart.
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I don't enjoy putting my characters through hell unless there's a reason. I don't use violence or anything just for shock value. They're always a means to an end.
