Jim Lee Quotes
I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
Quotes to Explore
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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It's a heavy burden to look up at the mountain and want to start the climb.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.
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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel path between manicured lawns. She would have in tow one or two slower-footed, sari-clad young Indian nuns. We thought her a freak. Probably we'd picked up on unvoiced opinions of our Loreto nuns.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I think when you're knee-deep in coming up with editorial plans, the desire to sit down and pencil something is pretty strong.
