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.
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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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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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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Most men, when they think they are thinking, are merely rearranging their prejudices.
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Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room.
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To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is repugnant, stupid and short sighted. Tools are made by man but have not the autonomy of their maker - they have not man's time-binding capacity for initiation, for self-direction, and self-improvement.
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Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines - that's okay.
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How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?
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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.
