Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
Quotes to Explore
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I like being unconventional.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting.
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With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
