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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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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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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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that.
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The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.
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I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.
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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?
