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Jeff Vandermeer Quotes

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Jeff Vandermeer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: July 7, 1968

Topics

Potential Repetition Try Always Use

I have played characters where I haven't been absorbed - you know, what I call a typical film leading man role where you just have to look gorgeous and be attractive and charming. It bores me. I like a bit of dirt, a bit of sand in the oyster.

Man Me Sand You Look Know

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

Optimism Think Stand Early Dark

I prefer to read print books. Maybe I'm just a little old-school. I do read e-books.

Little Just Books Read Print Maybe

I think you need to have people around you whose standard is high and who don't accept anything less.

People Think You Accept Need High

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?

Humor Saying You Sense Of Humor Know

I am a very sporadic watcher of television. I don't watch a lot of it.

I Am Television Watch Very Lot Am

Very few stories embody a human truth so definitively that we cannot think of the truth without remembering the story and cannot imagine how people ever got by without it.

Truth People Story Think Human Got

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Life Experience People Believe Alive

People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.

Christina Grimmie

People You Never Tell Wear Been

In a movie that's sort of a single monster movie, like 'Jaws,' once you see the animal, it identifies the threat, and you're able to start working on ways to take down the threat.

Colin Trevorrow

Animal Start You Down See Monster

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

People You Know Never Up Obstacle

I think the Emmy obviously is very prestigious and is the gold standard obviously in terms of television. But the Oscars go beyond that. I believe children, when they're growing up, dream of holding that Oscar.

Children Growing Up Gold Believe Go

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