Jeff Lemire Quotes
'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.
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You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a screenwriter - look at this.' You can't sit around, wondering why people aren't calling and asking about my writing.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.
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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw of it. In addition to trying to reconnect with my earlier work, I also wanted to try to do something that was completely new and different.
