Jeff Lemire Quotes
I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.
Quotes to Explore
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I think there's no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people's lives and improve the world.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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More than accepted, it's encouraged for rock stars to be out of control.
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Go for greatness. Anything else is a waste of time.
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Seeing people communicate about the band online has been amazing, but I think a lot of people spend a lot of time talking about what they hate rather than what they love. I don't want to get trapped in that.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.
