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 don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I do-all I can say is, my career has lasted way longer than I expected.
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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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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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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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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It does seem to produce more creative results when there are limitations. It's like in wartime with rations - people became more inventive with cooking.
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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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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable.
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We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
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If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.
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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.
