Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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Being typecast is the enemy of any actor, so if you can try to do something that flips on the head peoples' ideas of who you are or what you can do, that's my biggest aim.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me – and it was such a backhanded compliment – they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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Just as the lunar landings inspired many young people to consider careers in space and related fields, the solution of the challenging instrumentation problems presented in space science can inspire young people to push beyond the current state of the art.
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It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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There's an electrical thing about movies.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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I talk too quiet, and I have to yell on stage.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.
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I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.
