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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I have nothing to hide.
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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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The awkward thing for me is when the realization happens that I actually might like this girl. Then I become awkward.
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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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I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
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My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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I don't invest in rich kids' businesses.
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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?
