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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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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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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I like practicing law.
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It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.
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Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.
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It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.
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We're still finalizing the design and selecting the contractors. (The design) is still shifting and changing.
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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.
