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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It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.
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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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You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.
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I got into one of the schools I applied to because of the essay I wrote about Holly Hunter's character in 'Broadcast News.' She's the only female producer on this news network, and she's really good at her job, but she allots time in her day to just sit at her desk and cry. And then she's just back to work. I find that really effective.
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Singing has been a passion of mine, equal to or greater than acting, ever since I was very small.
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In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.
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My mom was a biological illustrator for a time before computers replaced that job.
