Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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There have been times when people who weren't my friends all of a sudden became my friend. I won't allow them to use me, but I have been pretty lucky to have friends who have supported me and who I have known since I was 12. They are still the same and they don't treat me any different.
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We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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The transaction cost approach maintains that some projects are easy to finance by debt and ought to be financed by debt. These are projects for which physical-asset specificity is low to moderate.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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Grief is love not wanting to let go.
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I have fans all around the world.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.
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Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.
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My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'
