Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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The nice thing about writing at home is that it's almost as though I'm doing it already. I get out of bed thinking of my work, and I don't have to go anywhere to do it.
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
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I love oatmeal raisin cookies.
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A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.
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I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!
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As a first movie, 'The Hobbit' is not a bad place to start.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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Balance your thoughts with action. - If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
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Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.
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The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
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My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
