Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.Jeff Vandermeer
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
Karan Johar -
I think India has several advantages in the knowledge sector, in the software sector.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
Rainn Wilson -
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham -
I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
Aarti Sequeira -
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
Irwin Shaw
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
Palmer Luckey -
I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
Iman -
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
Lake Bell -
Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.
Edmund White -
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
Okky Madasari -
I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
J. August Richards
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With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.
Gary Weiss -
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
Beck -
Google never knew how successful key words would be.
Yuri Milner -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
I love to perform live.
Katey Sagal
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One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
John Frankenheimer -
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.
Barack Obama -
I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.
Bruce McCulloch -
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin -
He's going to make sure it's done. It's always calm, but he had that look.
Gary Sheffield -
There are some beautiful creatures in the ocean that seem very alien at the same time.
Jeff Vandermeer