Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Is there any more encouraging sign than to see an Indian, who has never been to a university, like our friend Mr. Asutosh Dey here, for example, carrying out original work and finding it recognized by the foremost societies of the world?
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I'm incredibly proud of everything that we've achieved in Busted. We've enjoyed some of the best times in our lives together.
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People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
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I admire Chris Martin. Coldplay have made some wonderful records for the genre they're involved in, but I would consider them to be more of a pop act. The music is much more cerebral than it is animalistic.
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The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.
