Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Part of the reason why Kobe Bryant is such a big inspiration to me is because he was shipped off to the Lakers right out of high school. He went from English class to the Great Western Forum.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
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The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
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It's important that period films aren't seen as just a lovely visual exercise.
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After three years down here, I've not learned too much. But one thing I do know is that our bellies aren't big enough for revenge. It turns sour and eats you up. We'll get out, but we'll get out for the sun, the moon, and mothers, not for small-souled enemies, though we'll deal with them when we get there.
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I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.
