Jim Lee Quotes
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that.
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Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
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High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.
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Most people don’t want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That’s why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of “don’t hold me back” while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
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Creating and producing creative work, to me, those are all happy accidents.
