Jhonen Vasquez Quotes

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

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• Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.

  

  Warren G
  • Up
  • Good
  • Home

• I arrive in New York on October 15, 1975. On my own, by the way.

  

  Iman
  • Way
  • New
  • New York

• You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Work
  • You
  • Sound

• I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Life
  • May
  • Yourself

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Better
  • Unique
  • Cold

• I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • German

• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Stop
  • Police
  • Scandal

• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Great
  • Age

• I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Guy
  • Nice
  • Cool

• The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Best
  • Conversation
  • Succeed

• The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Kids
  • America
  • Future

• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• The thing that everyone remembers about 'Bambi' is that moment. 'The Lion King,' took it to quite an extreme because it was an action sequence: his father was killed in a wildebeest stampede - I related, because mine was, too.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Father
  • Action
  • King

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Manipulation

• The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Good
  • Important
  • Sometimes

• See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty, is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then, there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody - 'You must live life this way' - and these guys were bored.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• At the start of my career, when I used to toss and turn at night, I was fighting that feeling and wanting to go to sleep. Now I know that's normal, so I'll just get up and watch TV or something. I know it's just my subconscious mind getting ready for a game.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Game

• Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Road
  • Man's life
  • Intimation

• And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated about me, not about my characterizations but about me personally, my private self.

  

  Erich von Stroheim
  • Private
  • Attempt
  • Personally

• Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

  

  George Lillo
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Malice

• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  

  Jesse Jackson
  • Up

• Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Study
  • Read
  • Scriptures

• I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

  

  Jhonen Vasquez