Jeff Vandermeer Quotes
I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
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If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and R&B changed all of that because white kids want to be down with it. They wanted to learn it so they studied the culture. It's kind of a cool thing because we shouldn't be so separate.
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Form and function are a unity, two sides of one coin. In order to enhance function, appropriate form must exist or be created.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
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I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.
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The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth.
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I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.
