Jhonen Vasquez Quotes
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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That show, 'The Amazing Race' - is that about white people?
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I went out to California for college, and kind of on a whim started making music really as a joke, and over the course of the next five years started playing a lot of shows, and music became this really integral part of my identity.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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It's not the people in the South who create racial problems - it's the people who are governing.
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When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
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I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.
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I like America, and I think probably the American people like me.
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Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.
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Mangroves, salt marshes and sea grass lock away carbon at up to five times the rate of tropical forests.
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Growing up in the Sacramento Valley in the '70s, we were all pretty big into cars. Of course, I had to nerd out and be a fan of Bob Tullius' Group 44 Jaguars instead of Corvettes/Camaros.
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You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
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The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that in America, because we have no such institution, unfortunately adhere to the president.
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I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.
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We have this fascination that more is better, and we - what we learned was more isn't better ; that more care can actually hurt you. That fascination with the quick fix is often hurting us. One-third of health-care spending doesn't even improve health care.
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The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.
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I don't like it when people dress up like Zim, because they look like Hulks.
