Jeff Lemire Quotes

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

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• The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Reform
  • Finance
  • Biggest

• 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.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• 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.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Want
  • Negative
  • Recognition

• Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Give
  • Warm
  • Spicy

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• 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!

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • You
  • Look
  • Bed

• And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Business
  • Create
  • Brand

• 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.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.

  

  Dana Plato
  • You
  • Working
  • Pleasure

• The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Movement
  • Presentation

• There is no one true church.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • True
  • Church

• 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.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• Violence is the first refuge of the violent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Violence
  • First
  • Refuge

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Never
  • Beauty
  • Something

• The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Up
  • World
  • Women

• When you imagine the Koch brothers, it's hard not to think of the 1983 film 'Trading Places,' which featured as its villains a pair of brothers, commodity brokers named Randolph and Mortimer Duke.

  

  David Brock

• I don't think, there's no possible way for me, anyway, to play a character that I haven't found some sort of sublime compassion for and I related to Deborah on a way that almost, initially, almost in a way maybe someone in the audience might.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Character
  • Me
  • Compassion

• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Work
  • Men
  • Crazy

• Because we moved so much, I was always having to adapt and work out the lay of the land. So I felt envious of those who did not have to try.

  

  Claire Messud
  • Work

• I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work