Jeff Lemire Quotes
It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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You need to train your brain to be positive.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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A governing ethos of the Internet has been that whatever flows through it - information, ideas - is up for grabs.
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When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
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I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
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The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
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It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
