Jeff Lemire Quotes
Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I am not honest.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
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Everything is real on me.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.'
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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Don't be afraid to look silly.
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I felt that it was cool to even get to the point where I was able to audition on the actual 'SNL' stage. Looking back on it, I can't believe that I wasn't more nervous.
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Iuppiter ex alto periuria ridet amantum.
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I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.
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If a carpenter makes a chair that's comfortable for the person who's going to sit in it, he's done his job. If a train engineer gets a train in on time, he's going to make someone happy who's waiting at the station. And if an artist draws the kind of a picture that people are going to enjoy looking at, or he makes a visual story which people are going to enjoy reading, he's done his job.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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Art should walk a tightrope. That's what art should be. Art should be dangerous. You can't be scared to say something with it. People love to talk about how comics are real art and real literature, so why not use these characters to talk about real things, even if it is dangerous?
