Jeff Lemire Quotes
If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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We may like to think politics is a battle of ideas and that the best idea wins out. But that's not true in most elections. Most elections are about the worst ideas losing, not the best ideas winning.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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Let us stand together with renewed confidence in our cause - united in our heritage of the past and our hopes for the future - and determined that this land we love shall lead all mankind into new frontiers of peace and abundance.
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When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.
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I worked harder at my craft, and it took some time, but here I am today doing what I want to do, which is entertain people.
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If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
