Jeff Lemire Quotes
I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.
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Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
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I remember being bullied at school, and I remember being cruel to other kids.
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I made the final decision to become a professional wrestler because I was able to look at Sting and what he was able to do inside and outside the ring.
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When you do RAW or Wrestlemania or a PPV where there's 10,000 people or more, you don't necessarily look at the people. The only time there's a realization that there's that many people is when you walk to the ring. Once you get in the ring, your focus is only on the ring, and maybe the front few rows.
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I do well with peoples' parents, but I've certainly had friends who were not. One of my best friends is pretty consistently reviled by his girlfriends' parents!
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I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.
