Jeff Lemire Quotes

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

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• I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Remember
  • Learning

• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

  Saadi
  • Great
  • Together
  • Single

• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Space
  • Fall

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• Saudi had been a very restricted place. Even on the magazines there, if there was a little leg or cleavage showing, they used to blacken it with a black mark. Me and Ishmeet, so many times, had tried to remove the black portion with our spit, but of course, it would never come out.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Never
  • Mark
  • Restricted

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Past
  • City
  • Band

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• People will tell you that you can't do it, no matter what you are trying to do, so you just have to really keep at it.

  

  Madisen Beaty
  • People
  • Trying
  • Matter

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Me
  • Day
  • New York

• The disappearance of Israel as a Zionist project, through war, cultural exhaustion or demographic momentum, is... plausible... Many Israelis see the demise of the country as not just possible, but probable.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Country
  • War
  • Momentum

• For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Entrepreneur
  • Accidental

• I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Spotlight

• In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Industry
  • Union
  • Soviet

• Mr. Ai, we’ve seen the same events with different eyes; I wrongly thought they’d seem the same to us.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Different
  • Eyes

• When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Done

• I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Great

• Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

  

  James Cash Penney
  • Responsibility
  • Trust

• I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.

  

  Blanche Wiesen Cook
  • Men
  • Victory
  • Delegates

• There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

  

  Jeff Lemire