Jim Lee Quotes
As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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My college friends call me Karu, which is the worst. Only in our country can we make a short form for a short name. But otherwise, I've never had a pet name all my life. But now, in official meetings, someone will call me KJo. And I'll judge that person in my head. Just call me Karan.
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Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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The Internet is a big place where a lot of people can voice their opinions, and my mother chooses to pick fights with random people from all over the world who don't have the nicest things to say about me.
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The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
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Am I worried people will say I'm repeating myself? Sure. One thought I had was to publish it as a novel but eventually I just decided to do what I wanted to do.
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I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that a committee of 20 really hard-working, intelligent people couldn't do the same thing.
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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
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As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.
