Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
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If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
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I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.
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If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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I'm moderating one of the presidential primary debates right after I've had a baby. I'm sitting in a dirty closet on the floor behind the auditorium where this debate is taking place between Obama, Hillary Clinton, and I'm pumping breast milk... twenty minutes before I'm going on.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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I've experienced wrong diagnoses and been given antibiotics for things that could be cured naturally. We may not think much of it, but it destroys our immunity.
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Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?
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If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
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Music should always be first.
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A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.
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Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.
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In chess, bigamy is acceptable but monarchy is absolute.
Garry Kasparov -
«Exporting is positive because you sell what you produce.»
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Always remember, Mr. Robarts, that when you go into an attorney's office door, you will have to pay for it, first or last.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
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A person with faith does not question its roots, for he knows that if he subjected it to the critical examination of his intellect, he would end up without faith. The same thing can be said of any feeling. You can analyze any feeling to death, but when you do that, you end up without feeling and without a meaninful life.
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Everything changes when a man becomes purple
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In this business you either sink or swim or you don't.
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I'm not a fan of fiction that's totally hopeless.
