Jeff Lemire Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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There is no one true church.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
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It took me 20 years to buy an electric typewriter, because I was afraid it would be too sensitive. I like to bang the keys. I'm doing action stories, so that's the way I like to do it.
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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
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What the hell is an oboe?
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I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
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Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.
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I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.
